This is a long answer. There’s a summary at the end. Scroll down to the summary if you’re in a hurry. The problem you have, and the application you’re building, is a-typical. It’s a-typical for two reasons: you need (or rather want) asynchronous start-up initialization, and Your application framework (azure functions) supports asynchronous start-up initialization … Read more
It’s a fair question; fundamentally the difference is in the additional features Autofac can offer you if you need them. For simple applications, the Microsoft DI may offer enough functionality, but I’ve found as my application grows there’s some extra features I find myself wanting/needing. The features that in my mind encouraged me to originally … Read more
Martin Fowler shows it like this:
In my opinion, the root cause of all the problems is not doing DI right. The main purpose of using constructor DI is to clearly state all the dependencies of some class. If something depends on something, you always have two choices: making this dependency explicit or hiding it in some mechanism (this way tends … Read more
Eventually what I have concluded about the MEF vs IoC container is as follows: MEF is preferred to be used when one has to deal with unknown types or a plugin based architecture. IoC containers are preferred to be used with known types. Moreover, MEF is an architectural solution for dependency injection Whereas, IoC containers … Read more
That’s an implementation detail that you shouldn’t care about. The important thing is that now that the Web API uses the DependencyResolver to resolve dependencies for many different facilities, you will be able to use a real dependency injection whenever you want to plug into those facilities. So in your code you will be using … Read more
It means that if the details change they should not affect the abstraction. The abstraction is the way clients view an object. Exactly what goes on inside the object is not important. Lets take a car for example, the pedals and steering wheel and gear lever are abstractions of what happens inside the engine. They … Read more
I suggest declaring that with the StructureMap configuration. Using the slightly newer StructureMap code: For<IProductProvider>().Use<ProductProvider> .Ctor<string>(“connectionString”).Is(someValueAtRunTime); This way you don’t burden your client code from having to know the value and can keep your IoC configuration separate from your main code.
Two words, unit testing. One of the most compelling reasons for DI is to allow easier unit testing without having to hit a database and worry about setting up ‘test’ data.
See here and here for a pretty thorough technical comparison of several IoC containers, although somewhat outdated by now (they’re from before Windsor 2.0) However, I don’t think there are really any vital features that Windsor offers and other containers don’t. Windsor, StructureMap, Spring.NET have all been around for several years and have been used … Read more