Nicholas Blumhardt
Back at Microsoft, new blog location...
I've moved back to Redmond and again work on the .NET framework. I don't currently plan on reviving...
Author: Nicholas Blumhardt Date: 10/05/2011
Homeward Bound
The last year in Redmond has been truly amazing. Besides working with the great people in the .NET...
Author: niblumha Date: 09/29/2009
Debug Composition from within Visual Studio
This morning Dave came up with a great suggestion for finding MEF composition problems from within...
Author: niblumha Date: 09/24/2009
Parameterised Triggers and Re-Entrant States in Stateless v2
Since working on a clinical outcomes review system a couple of years ago, I’ve been aware of the gap...
Author: niblumha Date: 08/29/2009
Analyze MEF Assemblies from the Command Line
In MEF Preview 6 we shipped a sample assembly called...
Author: niblumha Date: 08/28/2009
Dynamic Part Instantiation in MEF
Disclaimer: This functionality is not shipping in .NET 4 (but is available in the recent CodePlex...
Author: niblumha Date: 08/27/2009
Implementing Optional Exports with MEF Stable Composition
Disclaimer: As usual, this blog post is discussing pre-release software, which may differ from the...
Author: niblumha Date: 07/17/2009
MEF Preview 6 Available
In the three months that have passed since the last release, we’ve been very busy making final...
Author: niblumha Date: 07/09/2009
Appearance on .NET Rocks!
This week I took some time out to talk to Richard and Carl on .NET Rocks! about Autofac, MEF and...
Author: niblumha Date: 05/29/2009
State Machines in Domain Models
I was reminded today of Stateless, a little project that I’m quite fond of. Stateless is a...
Author: niblumha Date: 04/16/2009
MEF: Dependencies are Queries?
Start to schematically represent any component system and you’re likely to come up with a diagram...
Author: niblumha Date: 04/15/2009
Hosting MEF Extensions in an IoC Container
There has been a lot of discussion among IoC container users about the similarities between MEF and...
Author: niblumha Date: 03/16/2009
IoC Open Space at ALT.NET Seattle
We had a great little open discussion on building IoC-driven apps today at ALT.NET Seattle. A...
Author: niblumha Date: 02/28/2009
IoC on Silverlight
A number of IoC containers have Silverlight versions - Ninject and Unity especially seem to have...
Author: niblumha Date: 01/04/2009
Declarative Context Adapters
The first post in this series introduced the problem of accessing IoC container features...
Author: niblumha Date: 01/04/2009
Explicit Context Dependencies
As a follow up from my last post about Global Container vs. Injected Context, I would like to share...
Author: niblumha Date: 12/29/2008
Container-Managed Application Design, Prelude: Where does the Container Belong?
There is surprisingly little information out there in cyberspace on how IoC containers should fit...
Author: niblumha Date: 12/26/2008
Ruby on MEF: Hybrid Application
Since the last installment in this little series, I've started to consider how Ruby/C# hybrid MEF...
Author: niblumha Date: 12/22/2008
Ruby on MEF: Imports and Exports
Well, the "Ruby Parts" implementation is slowly taking shape. If you haven't read the...
Author: niblumha Date: 12/13/2008
Hosting Ruby Parts in MEF
MEF is fascinating because of the way some initial assumptions led to a different flavor of...
Author: niblumha Date: 12/09/2008