Autofac.Web

ASP.NET web forms integration for Autofac.

Please file issues and pull requests for this package in this repository rather than in the Autofac core repo.

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• NuGet
• Contributing
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Quick Start

To get Autofac integrated with web forms you need to reference the web forms integration NuGet package, add the modules to web.config, and implement IContainerProviderAccessor on your Global application class.

Add the modules to web.config:

<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <httpModules>
      <!-- This section is used for IIS6 -->
      <add
        name="ContainerDisposal"
        type="Autofac.Integration.Web.ContainerDisposalModule, Autofac.Integration.Web"/>
      <add
        name="PropertyInjection"
        type="Autofac.Integration.Web.Forms.PropertyInjectionModule, Autofac.Integration.Web"/>
    </httpModules>
  </system.web>
  <system.webServer>
    <!-- This section is used for IIS7 -->
    <modules>
      <add
        name="ContainerDisposal"
        type="Autofac.Integration.Web.ContainerDisposalModule, Autofac.Integration.Web"
        preCondition="managedHandler"/>
      <add
        name="PropertyInjection"
        type="Autofac.Integration.Web.Forms.PropertyInjectionModule, Autofac.Integration.Web"
        preCondition="managedHandler"/>
    </modules>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Implement IContainerProviderAccessor:

public class Global : HttpApplication, IContainerProviderAccessor
{
  // Provider that holds the application container.
  static IContainerProvider _containerProvider;

  // Instance property that will be used by Autofac HttpModules
  // to resolve and inject dependencies.
  public IContainerProvider ContainerProvider
  {
    get { return _containerProvider; }
  }

  protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
  {
    // Build up your application container and register your dependencies.
    var builder = new ContainerBuilder();
    builder.RegisterType<SomeDependency>();
    // ... continue registering dependencies...

    // Once you're done registering things, set the container
    // provider up with your registrations.
    _containerProvider = new ContainerProvider(builder.Build());
  }
}

Check out the documentation for more usage details.

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