THIS PROJECT AND REPOSITORY ARE NO-LONGER MAINTAINED

Since August 2019 I've modified this project to use Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection instead of Unity (so that I can eventually transition my ASP.NET projects to ASP.NET Core) and I've reposted the project to https://github.com/Jehoel/AspNetDependencyInjection where all active development is.

I've since added significantly more functionality to the AspNetDependencyInjection project (such as support for SignalR, MVC and WebAPI (and a WCF sample)) so I don't recommend anyone uses this project anymore. If you are using Unity then you should still use AspNetDependencyInjection because you can adapt Unity for use with Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection (see https://github.com/unitycontainer/microsoft-dependency-injection ).

What follows is this project's README (which is now obsolete)

Unity.WebForms

(Currently listed on NuGet.org as Jehoel.Unity.AspNetWebForms)

Unity.WebForms is a collection of various ideas on Dependency Injection utilizing the Unity container in ASP.NET WebForm applications, formalized into a single NuGet package for easy integration into an existing application.

This package was inspired by similar packages from DevTrends, specifically:

• DevTrends Unity.MVC3
• DevTrends Unity.WCF

The only difference is that this packages is a DLL integration with minimal source code added. The only source file added is to allow the configuration of the Unity container with your types.

This particular package (Jehoel.Unity.AspNetWebForms) and repo (at https://github.com/Jehoel/Unity.WebForms) is a git fork of S. Kyle Korndoerfer's original project at https://bitbucket.org/KyleK/unity.webforms with a main objective of supporting ASP.NET WebForms 4.7.2's new WebObjectActivator which means that Page, UserControl and other types can use true constructor dependency injection.

This repo's objectives are:

• Update to .NET Framework 4.7.2 (done)
• Update existing dependencies, including Unity 5 (done)
• Add in support for WebObjectActivator, as per Microsoft's example at https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetWebFormsDependencyInjection (done)
• Update the sample project (done)
• Publish to NuGet (Jehoel.Unity.AspNetWebForms) (done)
• Add more tests (in progress)
• Add support for DI constructor injection for HttpModules

Current Version

• 1.4 (S. Kyle Korndoerfer's most recent version, released in 2015)
• 2.0 (this repo and project, updated in 2019 for ASP.NET 4.7.2 and WebObjectActivator)

NuGet Gallery

Version 1.4 (.NET 4.5, no support for WebObjectActivator)

http://nuget.org/packages/Unity.WebForms

Version 2.0 (.NET 4.7.2, with support for WebObjectActivator)

http://nuget.org/packages/Jehoel.Unity.AspNetWebForms

Installation and Getting Started

Please see the GETTING_STARTED.md file in the GitHub repository: https://github.com/Jehoel/Unity.WebForms/blob/master/GETTING_STARTED.md

References / Links

Here are some of the sources used for building out this package:

• Unity.WebForms:
  • Dependency Injection in ASP.NET WebForms - Mikael Lundin
  • Unity: How to registerType with a PARAMETER constructor
  • Unity.MVC3 - The linked articles on the bottom helped a lot with infrastructure
• Jehoel.Unity.AspNetWebForms:
  • Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7.2 - This article announced support for constructor-based DI.
  • Use Dependency Injection In WebForms Application
  • AspNetWebFormsDependencyInjection on Github
  • Sample example of using AspNetWebFormsDependencyInjection - (Repository snapshot)
  • Official Unity project for ASP.NET MVC

Copyright

• Copyright 2013 - 2015 S. Kyle Korndoerfer
• Copyright 2019 Dai Rees

License

Unity.WebForms is under the MIT license - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license