One guy who works hard at putting all of Microsoft's new products online and open is Glenn Block. Recently he's been working on the Managed Existensibility Framework (MEF). He and some other prominent blogers just announced that the MEF is now live on Codeplex:
It is a framework that simplifies the creation of extensible applications. MEF offers discovery and composition capabilities that you can leverage to load application extensions.
What problems does MEF solve?
MEF presents a simple solution for the runtime extensibility problem. Until now, any application that wanted to support a plugin model needed to create its own infrastructure from scratch. Those plugins would often be application-specific and could not be reused across multiple implementations.
Announcers:
Glenn: http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/2008/09/06/mef-making-its-debut-on-codeplex.aspx
Brad Abrams: http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/09/05/microsoft-extensibility-framework-released-on-codeplex.aspx
Hamilton Verissimo (founder of the Castle Project): http://hammett.castleproject.org/?p=319
And by the way: Glenn is one of the many Microsoft Redmond speakers coming to Øredev in Sweden in November! He will be speaking about the Composite WPF Application Guidance (Prism), MEF and he will be on our ALT.NET track! Here's Glenn's profile on the Øredev site!
Cheers,
/Magnus
posted @ Saturday, September 06, 2008 10:22 AM