A Gentle Introduction to Dependency Injection

How to reduce complexity while making testing easier in .NET 5

Manfred Lange
The Startup
Published in
13 min readJan 24, 2021

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In this article:

  • Benefits of Dependency Injection (DI) and Inversion of Control (IoC)
  • What is the problem to be solved?
  • Basic DI concepts
  • DI in a console application
  • Autofac in an ASP.NET web application in .NET 5.0

Introduction

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Manfred Lange
The Startup

CTO at MacroActive https://www.macroactive.com. I write about improving flow of value in software engineering. LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/manfredlange