MEF Silently Stops Finding Exports in Deployment Catalog?

Question

When my Deployment Catalog contains System.Windows.Controls.Layout.Toolkit.dll MEF 'breaks'... All I'm doing is adding a reference to this file in my project and the following diagnostics code writes nothing to the VS Output Window:

this.CompositionContainer.ExportsChanged += (s, args) =>
{
    var o = args.AddedExports;
    o.ToList().ForEach(export =>
        System.Diagnostics.Debug
            .WriteLine("MEF export: " + export.ToString()));
};

...when the reference is removed the ExportsChanged event fires. Is this problem my "special" problem or can someone else on Earth reproduce this problem?

Answer 1

Make sure you are subscribing to the DownloadCompleted event of the DeploymentCatalog. In your event handler, check the Error property of the EventArgs, and it will probably tell you what the problem is.