IoC on Silverlight

A number of IoC containers have Silverlight versions - Ninject and Unity especially seem to have healthy Silverlight offerings. Silverlight 2.0 is a variant of the .NET runtime, so this isn't too surprising.

Thanks to Tyson Stolarski and Rinat Abdullin, Autofac recently joined their ranks with a Silverlight-compatible build. (This one is hot off the press, so test it thoroughly before you set out to build anything mission-critical :))

MEF 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.

If you're reading this blog and use IoC on Silverlight in one form or another:

• What have your experiences been like?
• Do you use IoC in the UI, the 'back-end' or both?
• Does loose coupling/runtime composition get in the way of XAML-based designers?

I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 04, 2009
  If you're interested in what was required to get Autofac to build on Silverlight, Rinat has kindly written about the experience here: http://rabdullin.com/journal/2009/1/4/how-to-target-multiple-net-frameworks.html

• Anonymous
  January 10, 2009
  I've been using Ninject all over the applications, ViewModels, Views, Services, Models, etc... I think it's a great tool. I mainly followed the example of Jonas (http://jonas.follesoe.no/YouCardRevisitedImplementingDependencyInjectionInSilverlight.aspx) with some custom tweaks. It's great that we can provide a good design time experience. Also for testing purposes we have been able to easily mock dependencies.

• Anonymous
  May 29, 2011
  This link seams to work jonas.follesoe.no/.../youcard-re-visited-implementing-dependency-injection-in-silverlight