UWP app with Autofac and multi-instance enabled

In my journey building Nightingale REST client, I had to change its architecture a couple times. The first time was for enabling dependency injection. I know there are many MVVM toolkits out there which provided dependency injection services, but my experience with ASP.NET Core and Autofac led me to reuse Autofac for this side project. The second time I changed Nightingale's architecture was for enabling multi-instance mode for UWP apps.

Today, multi-instance and Autofac are essential pieces of Nightingale. This repository serves as my way of recording the basic steps I went through in adding these two features in case I need to use them again in the future. Feel free to peruse the repository and try it out yourself for your UWP apps.

Sample usage

1. Clone repo
2. Open .sln file
3. Press F5 to launch app in debug mode
4. Once the app is open, you can open a new instance by holding Shift then clicking the taskbar icon.

How to understand this sample

• Clone and review the code to see where things are.
• Review the diffs of the commits. I purposefully set up the code-related commits to incrementally add pieces one by one. For example, one commit adds dependency injection without Autofac. The next commit adds Autofac. I did this to help folks understand each intermediate step from start to finish.