2. How to build extensible Silverlight
application using MEF
Radenko Zec – Software Development Consultant
at Lanaco d.o.o
http://blog.developers.ba

5. Evergreen Question
How to build .NET applications from
components that can be discovered, reused
and composed dynamically?
Many working solutions, but none specifically
targeted to general third-party extensibility

7. What’s MEF, Anyway?
MEF Component ExportImport MEF Component ExportImport
Composition

9. The key elements

10. How MEF works

11. Simple MEF - MVVM
demo

13. MEF VS IOC container

14. When to use MEF ?

15. Catalogs – Type, Aggregate, Directory, Deployment
Lazy load component's
Import many
Metadata tagging
Creation policies
ExportFactory
Custom attributes
ImportingContructor
CompositionContainer
Recomposition
Allow default
demo