Mastering Ninject for Dependency Injection

Daniel Baharestani

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781782166207
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Microsoft Programming
• Index: Computer Science

In Detail

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.

Approach

Mastering Ninject for Dependency Injection teaches you the most powerful concepts of Ninject in a simple and easy-to-understand format using lots of practical examples, diagrams, and illustrations.

Who this book is for

Mastering Ninject for Dependency Injection is aimed at software developers and architects who wish to create maintainable, extensible, testable, and loosely coupled applications. Since Ninject targets the .NET platform, this book is not suitable for software developers of other platforms. Being familiar with design patterns such as singleton or factory would be beneficial, but no knowledge of dependency injection or IoC is assumed.

Mastering Ninject for Dependency Injection

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Mastering Ninject for Dependency Injection

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About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Understanding Dependency Injection

What is Dependency Injection?

DI or Inversion of Control (IoC)

How can DI help?

My First DI Application

DI Containers

Why use Ninject?

Summary

2. Getting Started with Ninject

Hello Ninject!

It's all about Binding

Object Lifetime

Transient scope

Singleton scope

Thread scope

Request scope

Custom scope

Ninject modules

XML configuration

How to use XML configuration

Convention over configuration

Selecting the assemblies

Selecting the components

Filtering the selected components

Explicit inclusion and exclusion

Selecting service types

Configuring the Bindings

Summary

3. Meeting Real-world Requirements

DI patterns and antipatterns

Constructor Injection

Initializer methods and properties

Service Locator

Multi binding and contextual binding

Implementing the plugin model

Contextual binding

Named binding

Resolving metadata

Attribute-based binding

Target-based conditions

Generic helper

Custom providers

Activation context

Factory Methods

Dynamic factories

The Shape Factory example

Using convention

Selecting service types

Defining Binding Generator

Telecom Switch example

Custom Instance Providers

Func

Lazy

Summary

4. Ninject in Action

Windows Forms applications

WPF and Silverlight applications

ASP.NET MVC applications

Validator injection

Filter injection

Conditional filtering (When)

Contextual arguments (With)

WCF applications

ASP.NET Web Forms applications

Summary

5. Doing More with Extensions

Interception

Setup Interception

Member Interception

Type Interception

Multiple Interceptors

Intercept Attribute

Mocking Kernel

Extending Ninject

Summary

Index

Mastering Ninject for Dependency Injection

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Credits

Author

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Reviewers

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Technical Editors

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About the Author

Daniel Baharestani is an experienced IT professional living in Australia. He has a BSc in software engineering and has over 10 years of professional experience in design and development of enterprise applications, mostly focused on Microsoft technologies. Daniel is currently working at 3P Learning, which is a global leader in online learning for school-aged students with its flagship platform, Mathletics—used by more than 3.5 million students in over 10,000 schools worldwide.

A book is like a song, which may usually be referred to by its singer's name, whereas many people are involved in the background to make it happen.

First, I am deeply indebted to my wife, Mona, who has taken all my responsibilities during this period. I understand how hard it was for her to do everything alone that we used to do together.

My special thanks goes to Remo Gloor, the main developers of Ninject, who kindly accepted the final technical review of this book, and other technical reviewers, including Daniel Allen, Matt Duffield, and Ted Winslow for providing valuable feedback.

I would also like to thank my manager, Houman, for being helpful and encouraging, and for understanding how important this book was to me. It would be much difficult to have it done without his support.

Finally, I should acknowledge the whole Packt team, who gave me this opportunity and guided me through this process, including but definitely not limited to, Nikhil Chinnari and Yogesh Dalvi, my commissioning editors, Sneha Modi and Romal Karani, my project coordinators, and Shrutika Kalbag, the author relationship executive for opening a door.

About the Reviewers

Remo Gloor has worked as a Software Architect at bbv Software Services AG in Switzerland for many years. During this time, he was using Ninject in several projects. At the beginning, he was a user of Ninject. Later, he contributed with several extensions. In 2010, he became manager and the main contributor to Ninject, which was developed originally by Nate Kohari and Ian Davis.

Besides his interest in dependency injection and IoC containers, he has also a strong interest in service-oriented and message-driven architectures, as well as event sourcing. Because of this, he contributed to the ActiveMq support to NServiceBus.

He blogs on http://www.planetgeek.ch/author/remo-gloor/ mainly about Ninject. He also answers many Ninject-related questions on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/448580/remo-gloor.

Daniel Allen is a Chicago-based developer who specializes in ASP.NET MVC 4 development and enterprise architecture design. He develops primarily in C#, JavaScript, and Objective-C. Because of his heavy focus on enterprise architecture design, Dan has experience in an array of patterns and tools that he has effectively and logically combined together to meet a project's unique needs. Dan holds a B.S. in Management Information Systems and an MBA with a concentration in Information Systems.

Dan spends much of his free time working on development-related side contracts and searching for the next great startup idea. He aspires to start a consulting firm that will provide capital for the various startup ideas one day. For recreation, he enjoys ...

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