http://blogs.msdn.com/nblumhardt/archive/tags/Silverlight/default.aspxTags: Silverlighten-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/nblumhardt/archive/2009/01/04/ioc-on-silverlight.aspxSun, 04 Jan 2009 20:48:33 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9271594niblumha2http://blogs.msdn.com/nblumhardt/comments/9271594.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nblumhardt/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9271594<p>A number of IoC containers have <a href="http://silverlight.net/">Silverlight</a> versions - <a href="http://kohari.org/2008/06/16/ninject-10-goes-gold/">Ninject</a> and <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd362339.aspx">Unity</a> especially seem to have healthy Silverlight offerings. Silverlight 2.0 is a variant of the .NET runtime, so this isn't too surprising.</p> <p>Thanks to Tyson Stolarski and <a href="http://rabdullin.com/">Rinat Abdullin</a>, Autofac recently joined their ranks with a <a href="http://code.google.com/p/autofac/downloads/list">Silverlight-compatible build</a>. (This one is hot off the press, so test it thoroughly before you set out to build anything mission-critical :))</p> <p><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/MEF">MEF</a> hasn't released any concrete plans for Silverlight, but experimenters can probably coerce the Codeplex source into a compatible build by hacking the .csproj file.</p> <p>If you're reading this blog and use IoC on Silverlight in one form or another:</p> <ul> <li>What have your experiences been like?</li> <li>Do you use IoC in the UI, the 'back-end' or both?</li> <li>Does loose coupling/runtime composition get in the way of XAML-based designers?</li> </ul> <p>I'd love to hear your thoughts!</p><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9271594" width="1" height="1">MEFAutofacSilverlight