Grace is a feature rich Dependency Injection Container designed with ease of use and performance in mind.
using Grace.DependencyInjection;
DependencyInjectionContainer container = new DependencyInjectionContainer();
container.Configure(c => c.Export<BasicService>().As<IBasicService>());
IBasicService basicService = container.Locate<IBasicService>();
It's as easy as create, configure, and locate.
NuGet package supports .Net 4.5, Windows Phone 8 and WinRT.
Visual Studio Templates are avaliable for creating new MVC 5, WCF, and Nancy applications
Getting Started - A getting started guide for Grace as well as documentation for more complex topics
API Documentation - API document is hosted on NuDoq
- Fluent interface or Attributes for configuration allowing for maximum flexibility
- Supports child containers and light weight lifetime scopes
- Contextual binding support (similar to NInject)
- IDisposable objects created by the container will be tracked and disposed by the container unless configured otherwise.
- Performance characteristics that make it faster than most of the containers out there inluding Autofac, Castle Windsor, MEF, NInject, StructureMap and Unity. (Benchmarks)
- Supports special types
- IEnumerable<T> - supports resolving collections as IEnumerable<T> as well as most other types of collections List<T>, ReadOnlyCollection<T>, T[] and any collection that implements ICollection<T>
- Func<T> - supports resolving Func<T> automatically
- Lazy<T> - when resolved a Lazy<T> will be created that resolves T from the scope it was created in
- Owned<T> - object resolved within a Owned<T> will have their disposal lifecycle tied to the Owned<T> (similar to autofac)
- Meta<T> - objects resolved within a Meta<T> are resolved along with their metadata
- Custom Delegates - any delegate that returns a type can be automatically resolved.
- Many LifeStyles supported including Singleton, SingletonPerScope, SingletonPerRequest (MVC & WCF out of the box), SingletonPerAncestor<T>, WeakSingleton and more. If none of the provided life styles meet your need you can always implement your own ILifeStyle class.
Grace has public builds at CodeBetter
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