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The Microsoft MEF can be used for dependency injection, but it does it much differently than most other containers. See how to get the most from the unique features of MEF. In this seventh and final ...

At my current client (I've been on this application since the first of the year), we are contemplating starting from scratch when implementing a big, new feature for our app (at least from the ...

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Using a composition root will differ based on the type of application, as it should be as close to the application's entry point as possible. The idea is that the composition root will contain all of ...

Dependency injection is an advanced topic. The term was coined by Martin Fowler in 2004 to describe the new, novel and almost magical way that inversion of control containers initialized the ...

This article discusses the strength and weakness of applying Dependency Injection (DI) with a variant of Abstract Factory design pattern. This approach is especially suitable for such scenarios as ...

Take advantage of the dependency injection principle to provide support for pluggable implementations in your application and build loosely coupled, testable components The Dependency Inversion ...

As dependency injection frameworks like Spring have become central in software applications in the last few years, the conventional view is now that the Singleton pattern is evil and should never be ...

I have been searching for information about workflow alternatives to Workflow Foundation because we may not move from 2.0 (to 3.5) before the end of the year. At some point, the IoC or DI pattern ...