Dependency Injection Tutorial - For Beginners & Professionals

Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC 4 using Unity IoC Container

In previous articles, I have explained the IoC, DI pattern and DI containers. I hope, you understand well the IoC, DI pattern and and DI containers. Now you will learn how to apply it in ASP.NET MVC 4. In this article, I am going to use e>Unit DI Container in MVC4.

What is IoC Container or DI Container

The terms Dependency Injection (DI) & Inversion of Control (IoC) are generally used interchangeably to describe the same design pattern. Hence some people says IoC Container and some people says DI container but both terms indicate to the same thing. So don't be confused from the terminology.

Implementation of Dependency Injection Pattern in C#

Dependency Injection (DI) is a software design pattern that allow us to develop loosely coupled code. DI is a great way to reduce tight coupling between software components. DI also enables us to better manage future changes and other complexity in our software. The purpose of DI is to make code maintainable.

Understanding Inversion of Control, Dependency Injection and Service Locator

So many developers are confused about the the term Dependency Injection (DI). The confusion is about terminology, purpose, and mechanics. Should it be called Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control, or Service Locator? Over the Internet, there are a lot of articles, presentations and discussion but, unfortunately, many of them use conflicting terminology.