RE: MEF - Microsoft Extension Framework. Opinions requested.

2015-06-03 Thread David Kean
- Microsoft Extension Framework. Opinions requested. Scott, I couldn't agree with you more. MEF feels one of those Patterns Practices thing that gets pushed onto us by MS at times but everyone hates and it's f* impractical in any real life scenario. On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Scott

Re: MEF - Microsoft Extension Framework. Opinions requested.

2015-06-03 Thread Scott Barnes
...@ozdotnet.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com');] *On Behalf Of *Corneliu I. Tusnea *Sent:* Tuesday, June 2, 2015 11:56 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: MEF - Microsoft Extension Framework. Opinions requested. Scott, I couldn't agree with you more. MEF feels

Re: MEF - Microsoft Extension Framework. Opinions requested.

2015-06-03 Thread Scott Barnes
MEF was built to put the PRISM genie back in its bottle. MEF is also the in-house approach to the stuff Autofac and other IOC stuff do for you these days as well. If you like to sprinkle [Import] [Export] throughout the code base and are happy with its existence than it's really down to Pepsi vs

Re: MEF - Microsoft Extension Framework. Opinions requested.

2015-06-03 Thread Corneliu I. Tusnea
Scott, I couldn't agree with you more. MEF feels one of those Patterns Practices thing that gets pushed onto us by MS at times but everyone hates and it's f* impractical in any real life scenario. On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.com wrote: MEF was built to put

Re: MEF - Microsoft Extension Framework. Opinions requested.

2015-05-31 Thread Davy Jones
Thanks Davy Sent from my iPhone On 31 May 2015, at 16:36, Piers Williams piers.willi...@gmail.com wrote: On the face of it, I think I would gently dissuade your colleague. Having a level of modular isolation for areas of a webapp is not in of itself a bad thing, but you'd be much better

Re: MEF - Microsoft Extension Framework. Opinions requested.

2015-05-31 Thread Greg Keogh
I agree, using MEF for really granular quick-turnaround things like pieces of web pages seems overkill and of little benefit unless you're creating some sort of clever fancy general purpose extensible web framework. MEF works great for dynamically discovering plug-in chunks of functionality in

Re: MEF - Microsoft Extension Framework. Opinions requested.

2015-05-31 Thread Piers Williams
On the face of it, I think I would gently dissuade your colleague. Having a level of modular isolation for areas of a webapp is not in of itself a bad thing, but you'd be much better off using something like Aufofac's modules *if the need presented* than MEF. MEF is a plugin framework, and even

MEF - Microsoft Extension Framework. Opinions requested.

2015-05-27 Thread David Rhys Jones
Hi all, I recently joined a new team and one of the Developpers is one of those guys that likes to complicate things for the hell of it. The current technology he is trying to push is MEF (Extension Framework) with every web page / section in a new plugin. Can I have some opinions on what

Re: MEF - Microsoft Extension Framework. Opinions requested.

2015-05-27 Thread Tom Rutter
Hey Davy Never used MEF but I've come across similar people and the norm for us now is to get the person pushing for something to create a sample and show the rest of the team the benefits. Sometimes (rarely) we all learn something good but most of the time the dev gives up hahaha All the best