Which Dependency Injection technique should I use in dotnet?

Question

[Revision 5/14/09: I need this to target Dotnet 2.0 because of my deployment scenario]

I am new to Dependency Injection & IoC.

I see that there are a plethora of containers and libraries to help the process along.

What are the pros and cons of using these libraries. What is your favorite (dotnet) container and why?

What about rolling my own container for Dependency Injection?

Thanks,

Peter Stephens

Answer 1

If you need only Dependency Injection probably AutoFac will be the best option, since it's small, quite simple and logical. It should not be to hard to grok.

Once you get that, and you feel the need for more mature product (that can do other things than simply DI) I'd suggest taking a look at Castle Windsor, which is pretty powerful out of the box, very well designed, and customizable. If you don't like that, I've heard good things about StrcutureMap.

Answer 2

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