Sleep Can Wait...
For any and all developers that have an addiction to learning and problem solving I give you (drum roll please) Sleep Can Wait...
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Intro to MEF - Part 4: Method Exports
Intro to MEF - Part 3
Monday, May 26, 2014
WCF Gotchas: Connection Closed
Sunday, October 6, 2013
How CallerMemberNameAttribute can help to remove magic strings
In this short video we explore how using extension methods and the CallerMemberNameAttribute can help to reduce duplicate code and remove magic strings from your code
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Intro to MEF - Part 2
Friday, June 21, 2013
C# Gotcha: Deferred Execution & Method Groups
Here is a short video demonstrating a C# Gotcha when it comes to using Deferred Execution with Method Groups:
Friday, January 11, 2013
An Intro to MEF – Part 1
I’m a big fan of MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework). I think it is very easy to use and offers a lot of advantages when developing an application. MEF was developed to be a framework to allow for extensibility in your applications. Parts of Visual Studio (including the Entity Framework Designer) run on MEF as does the Extension Manager. That being said, it also works very well as a Dependency Injection container. My goal is not to compare MEF to other containers (ie. Unity, Windsor Castle, NInject, etc) but to show you how to use MEF as a DI container.
As usual, you can view/download the code on GitHub.
For Part 1 we will create a simple console application that will log a message. However, we will use MEF as a DI container to supply the ILogger implementation. Remember, this is meant to be a very simple example. It is definitely not meant to demonstrate how MEF should be used.