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Mastering Ninject for Dependency Injection

By : Daniel Baharestani
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Mastering Ninject for Dependency Injection

By: Daniel Baharestani

Overview of this book

Dependency injection is an approach to creating loosely coupled applications. Maintainability, testability, and extensibility are just a few advantages of loose coupling. Ninject is a software library which automates almost everything that we need in order to implement a dependency injection pattern. Mastering Ninject for Dependency Injection will teach you everything you need to know in order to implement dependency injection using Ninject in a real-life project. Not only does it teach you about Ninject core framework features that are essential for implementing dependency injection, but it also explores the power of Ninject's most useful extensions and demonstrates how to apply them. Mastering Ninject for Dependency Injection starts by introducing you to dependency injection and what it's meant for with the help of sufficient examples. Eventually, you'll learn how to integrate Ninject into your practical project and how to use its basic features. Also, you will go through scenarios wherein advanced features of Ninject, such as Multi-binding, Contextual binding, providers, factories and so on, come into play. As you progress, Mastering Ninject for Dependency Injection will show you how to create a multilayer application that demonstrates the use of Ninject on different application types such as MVC, WPF, WCF, and so on. Finally, you will learn the benefits of using the powerful extensions of Ninject.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Convention over configuration


It is not difficult to register a few service types, one by one in a small application. But what about a production application with hundreds of services which should be wired to their implementations?

Convention-based configuration allows us to bind a group of services using a convention rather than defining individual bindings for each of them. For example, you can simply ask Ninject to bind all components to their base interfaces like this:

kernel.Bind(r => r
  .FromThisAssembly()
  .SelectAllClasses()
  .BindAllInterfaces());

In order to take advantage of the Convention based configuration, we should add refererence to the Ninject's Conventions extension. We can either use NuGet to install Ninject.Extensions.Conventions or download the binary file from GitHub. We also need to add Ninject.Extensions.Conventions to the using section of our code to make the previous syntax available.

As the syntax indicates, registering a convention-based binding at least consists...