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A few days ago MEF Preview 5 was released on codeplex with all the source code, docs, test and samples developers need to get started.  MEF will be a core part of .NET Framework 4.0, These preview releases available so folks can use MEF on Top of Dot Net framework 3.5.

You can read more about it here.

http://codebetter.com/blogs/glenn.block/archive/2009/04/11/mef-preview-5-changes-and-enhancements.aspx

Vikram

Hi,

Sometimes we might have a requirement where by we need to parse the tags and create some controls with that in asp.net.  Think of a situation where you do not what type of control will be create. You need to pass the control from an xml file/ or database. There can be many properties to the control, which will be passed. Passing these properties individually can be difficult, because you do not the kind of control itself.

In this kind of situation if we can pass the full formatted control tag as a string which will be parsed and updated then it can be great as we can easily apply all the property we want to apply.

Two days back, while discussing with a friend came a small interesting (programming) situation where he wanted to stop (break) a loop which was inside another loop.

You can think of the situation as he was first looping through all the rows in a grid view and then in the entire column in the grid view. Now he was trying to look into the text of each cell, and if the text matched a given value, he needed to break from both the loop and execute the statement after the loop.

His first idea was to use a flag which will be checked in the outer loop every time to see if the value has been found in the inner loop. The code would be something like below.