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MSDN Magazine: Cutting Edge - Application Extensibility: MEF vs. IoC - Dino Esposito
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Sunday, March 20, 2011 3:27:49 AM GMT Thursday, March 17, 2011 3:38:37 PM GMT

There’s an interesting new component in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 specifically designed to provide an effective answer to an evergreen question: How would you write extensible applications that can discover at run time all the parts they’re made of?

As Glenn Block explained in his February 2010 article, “Building Composable Apps in .NET 4 with the Managed Extensibility Framework” (msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/ee291628), the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) can be used to streamline building composable and plug-in-based applications. As one who started approaching the problem back in 1994 (yes, it was one of my first real challenges as a developer), I definitely welcome any proposed solutions in this problem space...

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tags: IoC, MEF, MSDN Magazine, Extensibility