SilverlightShow: Honey, I MEF-fed the Silverlight Gallery (for Christmas), Part 1 Comments

RE: Honey, I MEF-fed the Silverlight Gallery (for Christmas), Part 1

( Michaud Venant) — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:46:53 +0300

Doesn't Silverlight allready have a theming system with Styles in Resources? Isn't this a developer solution? I've come up to this problem with MEF and using ResourceDictionaries. The are not available when MEF instanciates the Class. Have you had any experience with this?

RE: Honey, I MEF-fed the Silverlight Gallery (for Christmas), Part 1

( Jon P.) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:20:29 +0300

Tried to look at the gallery and I got the "compiled to work with an expired beta version of Silverlight" error. I thought your Halloween project rocked. So, was looking forward to seeing the Christmas version. BTW, I tried to open the link in IE, Firefox and Chrome. Same error message.

RE: Honey, I MEF-fed the Silverlight Gallery (for Christmas), Part 1

( andrejt) — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:26:59 +0300

@Yaz:

1. Yes, you could do the same with WPF - MEF will ship with .NET 4. In fact, MEF for Silverlight was "ported" from the full version framework.

2. It's hard to say because each of the three have some overlapping with the others, and there is no 1:1 replacement. You can actually use all of three in the same project. With a decent MVVM framework under the belt (there are a few out there), I would (had) definitely go with MEF instead of PRISM. Nonetheless, PRISM's documentation/guidance is still worth going through for learning patterns.

While MEF can provide some of the features of an IoC container, it's not meant to be one, so I would say "no" to that.

But then again, I don't know the future plans for development with any of the three.

RE: Honey, I MEF-fed the Silverlight Gallery (for Christmas), Part 1

( andrejt) — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:06:07 +0300

@Glenn: Right, I should have mentioned that. Will update the article, thanks!

RE: Honey, I MEF-fed the Silverlight Gallery (for Christmas), Part 1

( Yazid) — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:11:25 +0300

Hello,

Excellent article,

- all the article I have seen use Silverlight rather than WPF. Can we do the same thing with WPF?

- Is MEF going to replace UNITY or PRISM?

TIA

Yaz

RE: Honey, I MEF-fed the Silverlight Gallery (for Christmas), Part 1

( Glenn Block) — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:20:44 +0300

Hi Andre, Nice Post!

One thing, where you discussed the references, you need to also add System.ComponentModel.Composition.Initialization which is where PartInitializer is located.

RE: Honey, I MEF-fed the Silverlight Gallery (for Christmas), Part 1

( andrejt) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:39:54 +0300

:) Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

RE: Honey, I MEF-fed the Silverlight Gallery (for Christmas), Part 1

( Fallon Massey) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:07:13 +0300

I tried to read this article, I really did, but those Ghosties scared the begeezers out of me.

Seriously, I'm a huge fan of MEF, and I enjoyed your article.