Dependency Injection in Windows Communication Foundation

Authors: Alex Culp, Robert Dizon, Greg Cowin, and Bill Collette.

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Summary

Dependency Injection (DI) is an object- oriented design pattern for creating loose coupling between classes. This article discusses the benefits of using DI in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), as well as some techniques for implementing DI in WCF.

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The Dependency Injection Design Pattern

Examples: Using Unity to Implement DI

Using Instance Provider and ServiceHostFactory to Construct the Service

Using Virtual Methods to Override Behavior