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Mastering Ninject for Dependency Injection

You're reading from   Mastering Ninject for Dependency Injection For .NET developers and architects, this is the ultimate guide to the principles of Dependency Injection and how to use the automating features of Ninject in the most effective way. Packed with examples, diagrams, and illustrations.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782166207
Length 142 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Custom providers


Providers are specialized factory classes that Ninject uses in order to instantiate resolved types. Whenever we bind a service type to a component, we are implicitly associating that service type to a provider that can generate instances of that component. This hidden provider is a generic factory, which can create instances of every given type, and is called StandardProvider. Although we can often rely on StandardProvider without having to bother about what it does behind the scenes, Ninject also allows us to create and register our custom providers just in case we need to customize the activation process as follows:

Bind<IService>().ToProvider<MyService>();
public class MyServiceProvider : Provider<MyService>
{
    protected override MyService CreateInstance(IContext context)
    {
        return new MyService();
    }
}

Although extending the Provider<T> class is the recommended way to create a custom provider, implementing the IProvider interface...

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