Krzysztof CwalinaDesigning Reusable FrameworksMEF and System.AddIns- June 13, 2008 Several people asked about the relationship between MEF and the technology in System.AddIn namespace. The answer is that these two are independent and complementary features. MEF is a primarily a composition engine. System.AddIn is an add-in activation and isolation technology. MEFs engine will be able to compose objects that are simple CLR object, COM and DCOM components (more precisely managed proxies to these components), remoting proxies, and finally System.AddIn add-ins. The...http://blogs.msdn.com/kcwalina/archive/2008/06/13/MAFMEF.aspx MEF CTP 1 Released- June 5, 2008 Several members of my team have already spilled the beans, but yes (!) we just released our first public preview of MEF. You can grab the bits from here and read a past post for a high level overview. I am super excited about the release. Its a very early preview and still lots of work remains, but the CTP is a significant milestone for us. Designing a general purpose extensibility framework is hard, and so we felt very strong about releasing such an early preview to the world to get early...http://blogs.msdn.com/kcwalina/archive/2008/06/05/MEFCTP.aspx |