Question

I recognized, that MEF is limited for metro style apps. There is no container anymore, so how can I get specific exported values like ILogger logger = container.GetExportedValues<ILogger>();?
Is the any tutorial available covering the metro version of MEF?

Thanks for Help,
Eny

Answer 1

As I already wrote in the comment, I don’t really like this approach, but it is the best what I have up to this moment:

public class CompositionContainer
{
    private readonly CompositionService _service;

    public CompositionContainer(CompositionService service)
    {
        _service = service;
    }

    public T GetExportedValue<T>()
    {
        var factoryProvider = new FactoryProvider<T>();
        _service.SatisfyImportsOnce(factoryProvider);
        return factoryProvider.Factory.CreateExport().Value;
    }

    private class FactoryProvider<T>
    {
        [Import]
        public ExportFactory<T> Factory;
    }
}

and the simple use-case might be this one:

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        var catalog = new ApplicationCatalog();
        var container = new CompositionContainer(catalog.CreateCompositionService());
        for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
        {
            var dude = container.GetExportedValue<IDude>();
            Console.WriteLine(dude.Say());
        }
    }
    public interface IDude
    {
        string Say();
    }

    [Export(typeof(IDude))]
    public class Eminem : IDude
    {
        private static int _instanceNo;
        private readonly string _phrase;

        public Eminem()
        {
            _instanceNo++;
            _phrase = string.Join(" ", Enumerable.Range(0, _instanceNo)
                .Select(_ => "yo!"));
        }

        public string Say()
        {
            return _phrase;
        }
    }
}

I don’t care about performance at this moment, but I guess I’ll add caching of factory providers or factories later