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MEF Preview 9 released

MEF preview 9 has been released on codeplex http://mef.codeplex.com/releases/view/40606 . The only changes are some bug fixes for the .Net version and a couple additions to the SL version. We brought back PackageCatalog but redesigned it under the name...
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MEF preview 5 released

My team released the 5th source code preview of MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework). You can get the latest bits at MEF preview 5 . A summary of the changes can be found on in the release notes but I will copy them here for convenience. If you have...
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Should MEF support non-shared components?

Hamilton has posted about the question of whether or not MEF should support non-shared as well as shared components (non-shared==factory and shared==singleton in our current public bits). In an ideal world we would love to support both but currently every...
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First Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) bits released

Today was a big day for my team because we released the bits for the first CTP of the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). MEF is a framework that allows developers to declare what they need (i.e. Imports) and what they provide (i.e. Exports) and then...
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Opening files from the VS "Quick find combo"

Ctrl+/ is quickly becoming one of my favorite and most used hotkey in Visual Studio. Pressing it will jump you to the "Quick find Combo" with a ">" already type in for you (which means interpret the text as a VS command). If you are like me you hate...
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Job openings on the .NET Framework Core Team

We have been incubating ideas about building a simple extensibility framework for some time. Now, as plans for the next version of the .NET Framework crystallize a bit more, we decided to productize the project. As a result, we have opened a job position...
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2008 Scripting Games - My solutions

Here are my solutions to the 2008 Scripting Games scripting competition. This is a rather large post but I decided one post would be better than posting them all individually, this way they will all be in one place when I want to find them later. I had...

2008 Scripting Games

It’s the third annual Scripting Games , the biggest scripting competition of the year! As a matter of fact, it’s most likely the biggest scripting competition ever . (The fact that it may be the only scripting competition is beside the point.) The games...
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Issues with the XmlSerializer in medium trust environments

In my last post I briefly mentioned that CodeHTMLer had issues running in a medium trust environment. The simple web application front end I created kept failing before it ever got started. It keep hitting a SecurityException nested in an InvalidOperationException...

Fun with C# functions

Dustin Campbell has an interesting series on C# functions on his Did it with .NET blog. Fibonacci Numbers, Caching and Closures What's in a Closure? Using Automatic Memoization A Higher Calling The Art of Currying Building Functions from Functions, part...
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