microsoft/vs-mef

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) implementation used by Visual Studio

vs-mef

This repo contains the Visual Studio team's implementation of .NET's managed extensibility framework. It is broken up into several NuGet packages, as listed below.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Composition

Lightning fast MEF engine, supporting System.ComponentModel.Composition and System.Composition.

Features

• A new, faster host for your existing MEF parts
• Reuse the MEF attributes you're already using
• ExportFactory<T> support to create sub-containers with scoped lifetime (i.e. sharing boundaries)

Documentation

• Why VS-MEF?
• Differences between .NET MEF, NuGet MEF and VS MEF
• Hosting
• more docs

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Microsoft.VisualStudio.Composition.Analyzers

Analyzers for MEF consumers to help identify common errors in MEF parts.

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Microsoft.VisualStudio.Composition.AppHost

Adds a VS MEF system with a pre-computed, cached MEF graph.

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Microsoft.VisualStudio.Composition.VSMefx

A diagnostic tool to understand catalogs, compositions and diagnose issues in them.

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