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Dependency Injection for Sitecore Pipelines and Pipeline Groups.

If you know me, you are aware of my love of Simple Injector, and if you don't know me, I love Simple Injector. I wanted to use it as the container that resolved a JSS layoutService processor, but the tried and true method of using ref and factory attributes blew

Sitecore

DI container references vs system boundaries.

In my post, Watch your Composition Root, I explore how to empower plugins to be apart of the application bootstrap process. After sharing this two friends of mine, Rob Earlam and Sean Holmesby supplied some feedback. Rob felt I should expand on the why of plugins and Sean made a

Sitecore

Service Locator Pattern or Anti-Pattern?

For a long time now I have considered the Service Locator an Anti-Pattern, but recently I have come to question this resolve, is it black and white? Maybe not. Mark Seemann first introduced me to the idea of an Anti-Pattern in general with his article Service Locator is an Anti-Pattern,

Sitecore

Two containers are better than one.

Sitecore is a fantastic CMS that does many things right, and from version 8.2 the list also included Dependency Injection. It's great to see the product embrace IoC, the framework's code is using it, training materials include the concept, and the Sitecore community is talking about it. I love

Dependency Injection

Watch your Composition Root

IoC is a great pattern that can help make business logic easier to maintain and independently test, all while decreasing complexity. However, in large applications object dependency graphs can become quite complicated making it very easy to lose control. So how can we mitigate this? Well, split up your registration

Unit Testing

Test First Drop Bear

I love TDD, but there could be a Drop Bare[1] waiting for you. The whole Red Green Refactor cycle is great but, can it be taken too far? When I started coding Test First I had a hard time changing my mindset, for most of my programming life I

Dependency Injection

Gravyframe

For the last few months I have been working on a boilerplate and example of how I think a website should be built on top of a .NET CMS. The basic idea is to abstract away the underlining CMS treating it as a detail not part of the core solution.

Dependency Injection

Dependency Injection an attempt to explain

I was explaining to a friend the other day what dependency injection was, and even though I use this in almost every class I create I could not come up with a simple analogy. There is a rule that I use sometimes that my father taught me: “Will your mother