Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) version 4 is published.

MEF is a library to build extensible applications (Plugin Pattern).

  • Provides a standard way for the host application to expose itself and consume external extensions.
  • Offers a set of discovery approaches for your application to locate and load available extensions.
  • Allows tagging extensions with additonal metadata which facilitates rich querying and filtering.