MEF to the rescue in Task-it

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Published on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/01 18:43 UTC
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One of the frameworks that I chose to leverage in the development of my Silverlight 4 Task-It application is MEF, the Managed Extensibility Framework. Actually, that decision came while I was at a Silverlight Deep Dive session on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA, and came at the recommendation of John Papa (Microsoft Silverlight Evangelist) and Glenn Block (the MEF Maniac).

If you are not familiar with MEF, its primary function is to provide a framework for extensibility in Silverlight applications, however, what I found is that MEF's capabilities go beyond just this. As a matter of fact, Microsoft announced at MIX this week that its new Silverlight Analytics Framework would use MEF for composition. You can read about Telerik's support for this new framework here:

Telerik is First to Announce Support for Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework

MEF used to be just one of many frameworks out there that could ...

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