Developing a plugin framework in ASP.NET MVC with medium trust

I’ve recently spent quite a lot of time researching and prototyping different ways to create a plugin engine in ASP.NET MVC3 and primarily finding a nice way to load plugins (DLLs) in from outside of…

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Using metadata with MEF in Medium Trust

One of the awesome parts of MEF is that you can attach metadata to your objects. This allows you to use the new Lazy<T, TMetadata> object so you can inspect the meta data about an object without…

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MVC Controllers as plugins with MEF and Autofac

Disclaimer This blog posts talks about Umbraco v5 (Jupiter), however since the state of the codebase is in it’s infancy, the details about Umbraco v5 in this article may not be accurate once Umbraco…

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