Uploaded September 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Would I recommend
- Yes
Recommended Skill Level
- Intermediate
- I would recommend already knowing DI, have used it, and found your own way to make it work for you first, before reading how it was designed to be used. You should find yourself using a service locator pattern due to the limitations of DI in stateful applications.
Talks about
- Pure DI, composition root, dependency inversion principle, factories, adapters, aggregates, decorators, SOLID
- Methods of injection (constructor, property or method)
- Common mistakes, misconceptions and anti-patterns
- Main 3 concepts of DI, composition, life-cycle and interception
Knowledge gained
- Main thing I gained knowledge of importance specifically of having all concrete implementations "constructed" by the object graph and life-cycles managed by composition root
- Re-enforced many principles and techniques I already use, so now I know names for some styles of code I write, and that those styles are known good principles
Pros
- Well structured, written and explained and easy to read
- Good reference book for all current DI knowledge
- Shows various ways of doing DI using 3 popular containers
- Has real-world examples of code
Cons
- Personally don't like some concepts used in the DI world
- Eludes to the one reason I brought the book, to use DI in a stated application (WPF)
- Not convinced on the level of SRP taken too strictly, splitting classes and interfaces too small so they fit with DI, not so much because it really makes more sense in your application to do so
Buy the book! amzn.to/2PFyTNT
Browse my Amazon Store amazon.co.uk/shop/angelsix
Would I recommend
- Yes
Recommended Skill Level
- Intermediate
- I would recommend already knowing DI, have used it, and found your own way to make it work for you first, before reading how it was designed to be used. You should find yourself using a service locator pattern due to the limitations of DI in stateful applications.
Talks about
- Pure DI, composition root, dependency inversion principle, factories, adapters, aggregates, decorators, SOLID
- Methods of injection (constructor, property or method)
- Common mistakes, misconceptions and anti-patterns
- Main 3 concepts of DI, composition, life-cycle and interception
Knowledge gained
- Main thing I gained knowledge of importance specifically of having all concrete implementations "constructed" by the object graph and life-cycles managed by composition root
- Re-enforced many principles and techniques I already use, so now I know names for some styles of code I write, and that those styles are known good principles
Pros
- Well structured, written and explained and easy to read
- Good reference book for all current DI knowledge
- Shows various ways of doing DI using 3 popular containers
- Has real-world examples of code
Cons
- Personally don't like some concepts used in the DI world
- Eludes to the one reason I brought the book, to use DI in a stated application (WPF)
- Not convinced on the level of SRP taken too strictly, splitting classes and interfaces too small so they fit with DI, not so much because it really makes more sense in your application to do so
