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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)

Summary


Windows Forms application supports all DI patterns, because it offers a single startup location in the Main method and gives us the freedom of instantiating all classes ourselves. WPF and Silverlight applications are friendly to MVVM pattern, and they support all DI patterns as well. ASP.NET MVC is a DI-friendly framework, and although the creation of framework components (for example, Controllers) are up to the framework factories, it allows to replace them with Ninject factories which support injectable components. Ninject.Web.MVC extension contains ASP.NET MVC injection facilities of Ninject. WCF is the other web platform which supports all DI patterns because of its high extensibility and configurability. It can be configured to use Ninject service host factories which are implemented in the Ninject.Extensions.WCF library.

ASP.NET Web Forms does not fully support DI; however, it is possible to configure it in such a way to use some DI patterns. The Ninject.Web extension contains...