Sample application for Jeremy Likness' 2010 Codestock talk.

Slide Deck from Jeremy Likness' 2010 Codestock talk.

This week I had the pleasure of attending my first CodeStock event in Knoxville, TN. Let me start by saying it was an amazing event. I give many thanks to the attendees, for keeping it a strong and thriving community, the sponsors (including my company, Wintellect), the speakers, and of course the organizers. You can learn more about the event at ...

Presentation slide deck for a talk I gave about using the Managed Extensibility Framework for Line of Business applications in .NET 4.0.

Silverlight Out of Browser (OOB) applications are becoming more and more popular due to the convenience of being able to install and launch them locally. As Silverlight applications become larger and more composable, advanced techniques such as dynamically loading modules are also becoming more popular. The ''out of the box'' Managed ...

During my talk about the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) at Devscovery this past week, I had two very good questions asked by the audience and promised I'd get an answer. The first one was about exporting in MEF. I was under the impression that a MEF part could have one export, but I was mistaken. The confusion came from this thread which ...

I had a lot of requests after both of my posts about transaction with the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern and Yet Another View Locator Pattern to provide a sample project. You asked, I listened, and here it is. I'll walk through how I built the example. Most of the code is taken verbatim from my two previous posts. To make it easier to use ...

Been working with a lot of customers using the MVVM pattern with MEF and the issue always comes up regarding how to marry views to view models. There have a been a few musings on this, from my own ViewModel locator pattern to the even more advanced (and elegant) locator proposed by John Papa et al. This is another pattern you may find useful. ...

One question I'm commonly asked is, ''Why do I need the Managed Extensibility Framework? How do I know when to use it?'' In addition to that really being two questions, I'm not sure I can tell you the top ten reasons to use MEF or whether or not it is the right tool for you. Instead, as a hands-on consultant who has been using MEF in production ...

Over the past few weeks I've been exploring the concept of region management using the Managed Extensibility Framework, and for a good reason. I'm working on a project that has several different regions and controls that must be managed effectively and across the boundaries of dynamic XAP files in Silverlight 3. Sound like a mouthful? In ...