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    Fundamentals of the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF): Extensible Applications in .NET (Video Training)

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    Overview

    Learn how to leverage the Managed Extensibility Framework, part of the .NET 4.0 framework, to solve common problems encountered when developing enterprise applications. These include discovery for separation of concerns, metadata for filtering and sorting implementations, and extensibility for highly modular applications. You will not only learn how these concepts can be coded and applied, but also how they have been successfully used in existing applications to provide reliable, scalable solutions. Viewers will also learn how to use MEF’s Silverlight-specific extensions to build modular Silverlight applications “out of the box.”

    The accompanying sample projects to this LiveLesson can be found in the "Extras" section:

    MyFirstMEF
    UnderstandingParts
    Catalogs
    Container
    LifetimeManagement
    LifetimeManagementSilverlight
    PluginManager
    LoggerImplementation
    PluginMetadata
    SilverlightMEF
    MEFRecipes

    Subscriber Reviews

    Average Rating: 4.75 out of 5 rating Based on 4 Ratings

    "Must see MEF fundamentals" - by Ashok on 07-APR-2012
    Reviewer Rating: 1 star rating2 star rating3 star rating4 star rating5 star rating
    Excellent Overview of MEF, thanks a lot. I guess "Common Uses for Metadata Part II" in Lesson 6: Metadata and MEF, was not complete ?
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    "Great work" - by Madhur on 18-OCT-2011
    Reviewer Rating: 1 star rating2 star rating3 star rating4 star rating5 star rating
    thanks for the tutorial
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    Table of Contents

    Chapter/Selection

    Time

    Introduction

    General Introduction

    Preview

    00:04:43

    Lesson 1: Introducing Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

    Learning Objectives

    Preview

    00:00:50

    History of MEF

    Preview

    00:01:30

    Areas that MEF Addresses

    Preview

    00:02:45

    Availability of MEF

    Preview

    00:00:49

    Summary

    Preview

    00:01:06

    Lesson 2: Writing Your First MEF Application

    Learning Objectives

    Preview

    00:00:57

    Add the MEF References

    Preview

    00:02:15

    Use the Import Tag

    Preview

    00:02:51

    Allow Multiple Imports with ImportMany

    Preview

    00:04:42

    Use Export Tag

    Preview

    00:05:39

    Configure Your First Catalog

    Preview

    00:06:17

    Put it all Together with the Container

    Preview

    00:05:49

    Add a Plugin

    Preview

    00:04:16

    Summary

    Preview

    00:00:41

    Lesson 3: Understanding Parts, Catalogs, and Containers

    Learning Objectives

    Preview

    00:01:51

    Understand Parts

    Preview

    00:15:57

    Work with Catalogs

    Preview

    00:14:03

    The Composition Container

    Preview

    00:21:24

    Summary

    Preview

    00:01:09

    Lesson 4: Using MEF for Discovery

    Learning Objectives

    Preview

    00:01:30

    Background Concepts

    Preview

    00:04:15

    Clean Contracts Using Interfaces

    Preview

    00:04:56

    Require Discovery via the Contract

    Preview

    00:02:25

    Define the Implementation with Export

    Preview

    00:04:15

    Non-attributed Exports

    Preview

    00:03:23

    Lifetime Management

    Preview

    00:04:02

    Summary

    Preview

    00:00:56

    Lesson 5: Extensibility with MEF

    Learning Objectives

    Preview

    00:01:19

    Conceptual Plugin Design

    Preview

    00:05:03

    Advanced Imports

    Preview

    00:05:41

    Handling Re-composition

    Preview

    00:04:16

    Discovering Extensions

    Preview

    00:05:07

    Re-composed Collections

    Preview

    00:07:38

    Composition Batches

    Preview

    00:04:29

    Summary

    Preview

    00:01:10

    Lesson 6: Metadata and MEF

    Learning Objectives

    Preview

    00:01:00

    Discover without Metadata

    Preview

    00:01:45

    Extensions without Metadata

    Preview

    00:01:35

    Defining Metadata

    Preview

    00:02:39

    Filtering Metadata

    Preview

    00:04:19

    Common Uses for Metadata

    Preview

    00:02:17

    Common Uses for Metadata Part II

    Preview

    00:04:34

    Summary

    Preview

    00:01:09

    Lesson 7: MEF in Silverlight Applications

    Learning Objectives

    Preview

    00:01:07

    MEF in Silverlight

    Preview

    00:04:13

    XAML Considerations

    Preview

    00:04:07

    CompositionInitializer

    Preview

    00:04:23

    CompositionHost

    Preview

    00:01:56

    DeploymentCatalog

    Preview

    00:04:44

    Dynamic Module Loading

    Preview

    00:06:08

    Summary

    Preview

    00:00:53

    Lesson 8: Conclusion: MEF Recipes

    Learning Objectives

    Preview

    00:01:36

    Inversion of Control

    Preview

    00:20:28

    Lifetime Management and Configuration

    Preview

    00:12:19

    Factories

    Preview

    00:13:20

    Plugins and Modular Application

    Preview

    00:09:30

    Capability-based Imports

    Preview

    00:12:40

    Pipelines

    Preview

    00:02:08

    Summary

    Preview

    00:01:03

    Extras

    The publisher has provided additional content related to this title.


    Description
    Content

    Sample code for the video lessons

    • 9780132929400-MEFCodeSamples.zip