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How not to do Dependency Injection, in NerdDinner - Jimmy Bogard - Los Techies

published 218 days, 16 hours, 42 minutes ago posted by

Steves 219 days, 17 hours, 24 minutes ago

How not to do Dependency Injection, in NerdDinner - Jimmy Bogard - Los Techies

Checking out the NerdDinner code the other day, I found a common Dependency Injection anti-pattern. One of the core concepts of DI is that components are not responsible for locating their own dependencies. The code went part of the way to full-on DI, but not quite far enough. Here’s the offending code:

public class SearchController : Controller {

IDinnerRepository dinnerRepository;

// // Dependency Injection enabled constructors

public SearchController() : th...