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MEF Preview 5

Posted by Rohland in Development on April 23, 2009

Just upgraded to MEF preview 5 and thought I would just post a gotcha that had me puzzled for a few minutes. After upgrading none of my exported parts were being picked up after composing an instance of the composition container class. I was exporting my types as per the example below:


    1 [Export("DataTransformation.Task")]

    2 public class Task : DataTransformationTask

    3 {

    4     // ….

    5 }



With MEF preview 5 you have to explicitly pass the type you are exporting in the Export attribute constructor as per below:


    1 [Export("DataTransformation.Task", typeof(DataTransformationTask))]

    2 public class Task : DataTransformationTask

    3 {

    4     // ….

    5 }



If you would like to find out what else has changed I would recommend taking a read through Glenn Block’s blog review here: http://codebetter.com/blogs/glenn.block/archive/2009/04/11/mef-preview-5-changes-and-enhancements.aspx

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