Contents Automatic Factories Property Injection Container.BuildUp Introducing “Automatic Builders” Creating “Automatic Builders” Automatic Factories I’ve been working with Unity 2.0 on a couple of projects recently (the source is at http://unity.codeplex.com – the microsoft.com...

I’ve been playing around with Unity recently, and in particular I’ve been trying to get Unity to resolve dependencies from factory methods, and more specifically manage the lifetime of those dependencies. If you’re not familiar with the factory method pattern then check out Wikipedia . Out of the...

Last time we looked at how to set up the configuration file so that Unity would wire up an object that took an IDbConnection parameter in its constructor. Whilst the solution works, it is easy for the various connection strings to become buried away in the Unity configuration. Also, the application configuration...

I was adding dependency injection to an existing project and opted to use Unity configured via the application configuration file. As I was running through the configuration, I hit a type that required a database connection which it took in as an IDbConnection reference in the constructor so I added...