Building Extensible Applications with MEF

Pluralsight
Course Summary
Managed Extensibility Framework is Microsoft's answer to the extensibility problem. This course dives into MEF, its mechanics and how MEF can be used to build flexible, pluggable applications.
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Course Description
In this course, you'll learn about MEF, Microsoft's answer to the runtime extensibility problem of today's applications, and how to implement it into your existing applications. What is MEF? How does it work? Should you replace your existing IoC solution with MEF? We'll answer these questions and more throughout this course. For existing users of MEF, we also cover troubleshooting and debugging parts.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction- 16m 46s
—What is MEF? 2m 0s
—Building extensible applications 4m 27s
—How MEF works 1m 22s
—Demo 2m 31s
—MEF vs IoC 2m 32s
—Programming models 3m 0s
—Summary 0m 54sAttributed Programming Model - Parts- 24m 56s
—Exporting 2m 54s
—Importing 4m 34s
—Contracts 4m 19s
—Metadata 5m 46s
—Exporting and Importing Methods and Properties 4m 28s
—Constructor Injection 2m 14s
—Summary 0m 41sAttributed Programming Model - Composition- 21m 27sPart Lifetime and Scope- 15m 33sDebugging- 15m 37sMore MEF!- 21m 11s