The key difference between inversion of control and dependency injection is that inversion of control requires the use of an external framework to manage resources, while dependency injection provides ...

Dependency injection is an advanced topic. The term was coined by Martin Fowler in 2004 to describe the new, novel and almost magical way that inversion of control containers initialized the ...

I've used Dependency Injection (DI) in a number of my columns. My container of choice is Castle Windsor. While Windsor makes IoC easy, there have been a few occasions where I've needed to push things ...

Before you can begin refactoring, you need to know what to look for. I'm a very visual person, so whenever I work on refactoring a large or complex application, I begin by whiteboarding all components ...

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ependency injection is a technique whereby one object (the dependency) is passed to another object that needs it. Dependency Injection is a realization of the inversion of control principle, which ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how a good software team will defer decisions as long as possible. Smart teams will design and build systems that don’t lock them into any particular implementation ...