Jehoel.AspNetDependencyInjection.WebApi 4.0.0

AspNetDependencyInjection

(Currently listed on NuGet.org as Jehoel.AspNetDependencyInjection and Jehoel.AspNetDependencyInjection.Mvc)

AspNetDependencyInjection allows "Classic" ASP.NET Web Forms applications to use Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection to compose application services.

• This project is derived from my earlier Unity.WebForms project which provided DI using Unity, located at https://github.com/Jehoel/Unity.WebForms.

  • ...which itself is a derivative and fork of S. Kyle Korndoerfer's original project at https://bitbucket.org/KyleK/unity.webforms
    • ...which cites DevTrends Unity.MVC3 and DevTrends Unity.WCF as original works.

• This particular package's main objective is supporting ASP.NET Web Forms 4.7.2's new WebObjectActivator which means that Page, UserControl and other types can use true constructor dependency injection. Previously applications had to use "property injection" which many consider to be an anti-pattern.

• This project is not intended for use with ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET 5, nor ASP.NET Core. Those platforms already have established dependency-injection infrastructure ecosystems available to their users.

AspNetDependencyInjection.Mvc exposes AspNetDependencyInjection as an implementation of System.Web.Mvc.IDependencyResolver for use with ASP.NET MVC 5.x.

Current Version

• 1.4 - S. Kyle Korndoerfer's most recent version of Unity.WebForms, released in 2015. See https://bitbucket.org/KyleK/unity.webforms.
• 2.0 - My Unity.WebForms project, updated in 2019 for ASP.NET 4.7.2 and WebObjectActivator). See https://github.com/Jehoel/Unity.WebForms.
• 3.0 - After being extensively modified to use Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection and renamed to AspNetDependencyInjection (as it now is unrelated to Unity.
• 3.2 - Adding support for ASP.NET MVC (which turned out to be broken).
• 3.3 - Bugfixing ASP.NET MVC support.
• 4.0 - Major refactoring and API redesign. Adding support for SignalR (both scoped and unscoped) and ASP.NET Web API.

NuGet Gallery

Install-Package Jehoel.AspNetDependencyInjection

Install-Package Jehoel.AspNetDependencyInjection.Mvc

Installation and Getting Started

Please see the GETTING_STARTED.md file in the GitHub repository: https://github.com/Jehoel/AspNetDependencyInjection/blob/master/GETTING_STARTED.md

References / Links

Here are some of the sources used for building out this package:

• Unity.WebForms:
  • Dependency Injection in ASP.NET WebForms - Mikael Lundin
  • Unity: How to registerType with a PARAMETER constructor
  • Unity.MVC3 - The linked articles on the bottom helped a lot with infrastructure
• Jehoel.Unity.AspNetWebForms:
  • Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7.2 - This article announced support for constructor-based DI.
  • Use Dependency Injection In WebForms Application
  • AspNetWebFormsDependencyInjection on Github
  • Sample example of using AspNetWebFormsDependencyInjection - (Repository snapshot)
  • Official Unity project for ASP.NET MVC

Copyright

• Copyright 2013 - 2015 S. Kyle Korndoerfer
• Copyright 2019 Dai Rees

License

AspNetDependencyInjection and all related prior projects are licensed under the MIT license - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license