Template 10 dependency injection using MEF

Question

I'm familiar with using MEF in .NET Framework 4.6.* but not in .NET Core. I'm messing about with the Hamburger template from Template 10 to see if it is suitable for my needs but I haven't been able to figure out how to compose my view models using MEF.

My question is how can I navigate to a view using the navigation service in such a way that its view model will be injected by MEF?

Answer 1

My bad, I hadn't spotted this:

How do I use a Unity IoC container with Template10?

In the end, I went for a solution like this:

public interface IView
{
    ViewModelBase ViewModel { get; }
}

[Export]
public sealed partial class MainPage : Page, IView
{
    public ViewModelBase ViewModel
    {
        get
        {
            return VM as ViewModelBase;
        }
    }

    [Import]
    public MainPageViewModel VM { get; set; }

    public MainPage()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        NavigationCacheMode = Windows.UI.Xaml.Navigation.NavigationCacheMode.Enabled;
    }
}

And in the App.xaml.cs:

public override async Task OnStartAsync(StartKind startKind, IActivatedEventArgs args)
    {
        var config = new ContainerConfiguration();
        _container = config.WithAssembly(GetType().GetTypeInfo().Assembly).CreateContainer();
        await NavigationService.NavigateAsync(typeof(Views.MainPage));
    }       

    public override INavigable ResolveForPage(Page page, NavigationService navigationService)
    {
        _container.SatisfyImports(page);
        return (page as IView)?.ViewModel;
    }