Tinyject – IoC in an Evening

larsw — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:52:33 +0000

Last night, while hacking on the Aggressive project, I where in the need of a container. My initial idea was to try out Autofac, but since I was offline at the moment, I quickly hacked together a small container myself. Since I actually thought the look&feel of the interface was exactly what I wanted, I decided to put the source code in a separate project and give it a name; Tinyject. The code can be found here and is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

Features:

A Register() method in different flavors (including generic versions) for registering concrete types & interfaces in the type map.
The Register() methods return this, so they can be chained.
A Resolve() method in different flavors (including generic versions) for resolving new and existing instances of registered types.
An idea of instance lifetime; Transient & Singleton.
Property, field and constructor injection.
The container implements System.IDisposable, and can be used in a using() { … } scope.
A static, thread-safe wrapper, TinyjectStatic.
A small number of xUnit-based unit tests to check the integrity of the stuff.

That’s it. At the moment there is no configuration system – and no extensibility points, but I believe the 2.0 version – maybe developed tonight after the baby swimming, will contain a simple extensible configuration model.

If anyone want to design a logo for it – please go ahead

Lars Wilhelmsen » Tinyject

Tinyject – IoC in an Evening