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MEF Preview 5

Released:	Apr 7 2009
Updated:	Apr 7 2009 by gblock
Dev status:	Stable
Rated:	based on 10 ratings (Add your own rating)
Reviewed:	3 reviews
Downloaded:	3924 downloads
Wiki link:	[release:25797]

MEF Preview 5.zip

application, 3215K, uploaded Apr 7 2009 - 3924 downloads

Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)

This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the software, you accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not use the software.

1. Definitions

The terms "reproduce," "reproduction," "derivative works," and "distribution" have the same meaning here as under U.S. copyright law.

A "contribution" is the original software, or any additions or changes to the software.

A "contributor" is any person that distributes its contribution under this license.

"Licensed patents" are a contributor's patent claims that read directly on its contribution.

2. Grant of Rights

(A) Copyright Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to reproduce its contribution, prepare derivative works of its contribution, and distribute its contribution or any derivative works that you create.

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3. Conditions and Limitations

(A) No Trademark License- This license does not grant you rights to use any contributors' name, logo, or trademarks.

(B) If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents that you claim are infringed by the software, your patent license from such contributor to the software ends automatically.

(C) If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software.

(D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under a license that complies with this license.

(E) The software is licensed "as-is." You bear the risk of using it. The contributors give no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws which this license cannot change. To the extent permitted under your local laws, the contributors exclude the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

Welcome to the MEF Source Preview 5

Disclaimer: MEF is in development. The source available on this site, does not reflect the final state of the product, it is a preview of what will be shipping in the framework in the future. We welcome any feedback you have on your experience.

This our fifth MEF source preview. This drop includes full source for MEF as well as several sample applications.

Note: we don't sign the assembly releases. In case you need a signed assembly follow these steps.

The full source in this release is licensed under MS-PL.

For a list of changes in Preview 5, please refer to the release notes.

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The release zip file contains the source and binaries. The source is also checked in to the tree where you can access it through SVN.

System Requirements

MEF was designed to run on the Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional, or Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Applications built using this MEF will require the .NET Framework 3.5 to run.

Before you can use MEF, the following must be installed:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

We welcome your feedback. If you encounter any bugs or have feature suggestions, please submit a work item.

Releases

Released | Planned

	MEF Preview 8 Oct 22 2009, Beta
	MEF Analysis Tool (mefx) for .NET 4.0 Beta Sep 25 2009, Beta
	MEF Preview 7 Aug 27 2009, Alpha
	MEF Preview 6 Jul 13 2009, Stable
	MEF Preview 5 Apr 7 2009, Stable
	MEF Preview 4 release Jan 26 2009, Alpha
	MEF Preview 3 release Nov 25 2008, Alpha

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Reviews for this release

I have been following MEF for a while now, another example of an invasive clunky framework, too much time was spent arguing about the concept as opposed to implementing it properly. So many contributors and documentation is not even complete. Pathetic...
by fir3pho3nixx on Jul 9 2009 at 11:09 AM

While the concept of this project is really, very cool I have to say the overall project itself is very, very poor! Or, if you prefer, typical of how Microsoft operates. This project has NO updated samples, no documentation (new) just a reference in a read me that says the IDE project is the latest. At least have the professionalism to remove all the old stuff. DON"T WASTE YOUR TIME
by tCodex on Jul 6 2009 at 11:26 PM

really nice improvements to the typing, inheritance behavior and a controllable/sane recomposition strategy
by KathleenDollard on May 4 2009 at 4:33 PM

Managed Extensibility Framework

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Welcome to the MEF Source Preview 5

For a list of changes in Preview 5, please refer to the release notes.

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