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What’s new in MEF 2 Preview 5? [Alok, Nick]
Nearly two months since we published MEF 2 Preview 4, we have just posted our fifth preview on the MEF CodePlex site.The new preview has been shaped by your feedback; everyone who took the time to do... more
Monday, Dec 19 BCL Team
Sharing with CompositionScopeDefinition in MEF 2 [Alok]
This post discusses features in the preview version of MEF, and some details may change between now and the full release.In the previous post, we introduced ExportFactory<T> and demonstrated h... more
Monday, Dec 19 BCL Team
ExportFactory<T> in MEF 2 [Alok]
This post discusses features in the preview version of MEF, and some details may change between now and the full release.In the first version of MEF there are only two notions of lifetime: A shared g... more
Thursday, Nov 17 BCL Team

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