Part 6 of a series of screencasts looking at the new Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in the Silverlight 4 beta.
MEF is a framework that simplifies the design of extensible applications and components. It can flexibly and dynamically discover a set of loosely coupled components and analyse their dependencies in order to compose them together at run time.
In this screencast we take a look at how we can provide defaults in a CompositionContainer such that an application can be sure that it has an implementation of a plug-in if no additional plug-in is discovered by MEF. This leads to a discussion about
ExportProviders and how they provide an extensibility point for MEF.
Tips for viewing:
- Each video in this series has a 3.5 minute standard introductory "header" on it so once you have seen that header you may like to skip it on subsequent videos
- For the time pressured - I find that I speak so slowly that you can speed me up to approximately 1.5-2.0 times normal speed and still listen comfortably.
I'm working to get together a Live Meeting in early 2010 with people from the MEF team in order that people can chat more about MEF in Silverlight. Stay tuned.
The next screencast in this series is ( not yet available ). "That's all folks!" but subscribe to the feed above for notifications when more come online...
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