Twin Cities Code Camp

The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) keeps showing up in an increasing number of areas. Whether it is heard in the context of Prism, RIA Services, the MVC framework or even Visual Studio 2010, MEF is mentioned as a core enabling technology. Some people have even used MEF as an IoC container. In MEF everything is an extension and everything is an extensible – including the extensions themselves. This introduction is focused on describing what MEF is (and equally important - what it isn't), we'll walk through a real-world scenario of changing an application to use MEF and get a glimpse at how MEF will change how we think about application composition.