Still can't import an exported property?

Question

Very odd.  Everything else works.  My MainView gets called by App.xaml.cs, and is part of a composed batch.  MainView imports MainViewModel, which in turn does an ImportMany on other models, such as DatabaseLoginModel.  So in MainViewModel I have this:

[ImportMany("CentralModel")]
private Lazy<ViewModelBase, ICentralViewMetaData>[] views = null;

views, then, does indeed contain the models I want, which get displayed just fine.

But this property, in MainViewModel:
[Export("SetActiveView")]
public string SetActiveView
{
    set { _av = value; }
    get { return _av; }
}

Is still not being properly imported in DatabaseViewModel:
[Import("SetActiveView")]
public string SetActiveView { get; set; }

Is it possibly because of the Lazy ImportMany of DatabseViewModel?

What else could it be?  As far as I can tell, all the right viewmodels are being created by MEF correctly, but I still cant inject a property.

Answer 1

Found the problem, kind of.

I think there is something happening under the hood, where automatic properties are not composed against non-auto properties.  Changing the property in DatabaseViewModel to a non-auto property resulted in correct mapping.

I ended up changing this to a method anyways.