Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 5

Workshop: Getting Started with MEF

Let's look at a very simple scenario in which MEF can be used to “inject” an instance of a class into another class, without the need to explicitly “new up” the class instance. We'll make the class known to MEF by “exporting” it, and “import” it into the view's code-behind class so that it can use it.

1. Create a new project using the Silverlight Application project template, named Chapter14Sample.
2. Add a reference to the following MEF assemblies:
   • System.ComponentModel.Composition.dll
   • System.ComponentModel.Composition.Initialization.dll
3. Add a new class to the project, named PersonPart.cs, containing the following ...