Category Archives: StructureMap

Hail to the king, baby!

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

Looks like StructureMap 2.5 dropped this weekend.  Which is nice, as we’ve been running off of the trunk for around six months. On a side note, I never really *openly* mocked the release as the Duke Nukem Forever release, just … Continue reading →

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The Rhino.Mocks’ AssertWasCalled method does work

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Joshua Flanagan

This behavior is probably clearly specified somewhere, but somehow it has been non-obvious to the four people on our team to the point that we were leaning toward banning its use. I didn’t want to go that far, so figured … Continue reading →

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Integrating StructureMap and NHibernate with WCF

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

Following many examples I found online for other IoC containers, I borrowed utilized those designs to create a StructureMap instance provider.  One problem we ran into with that design was dealing with NHibernate.  Mainly, there are two types that are … Continue reading →

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Some IoC Container guidelines

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

So Derick Bailey asked me the other day a few weeks ago to describe how we use our IoC container.  I wouldn’t call it “best practices”, though some of these tips came from the creator of our container of choice, … Continue reading →

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Building arrays in StructureMap 2.5

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

Although it was possible in previous versions of StructureMap, the new fluent interface for StructureMap configuration in version 2.5 allows easy configuration of array type constructor parameters.  For example, consider a simple order processor pipeline: public class OrderPipeline { private … Continue reading →

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StuctureMap: Advanced-level Usage Scenarios (Part 1: Type/Convention Scanners)

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Chad Myers

I’ll start with my strong hand on the advanced StructureMap-foo and go straight to the type scanners (a.k.a. convention scanners).  Thankfully, there was a thread on the StructureMap Users mailing list with just the kind of problem these things solve. … Continue reading →

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Integrating StructureMap with WCF

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

When developing with an IoC container like StructureMap, eventually some place in your code you will need to call the registry to instantiate your classes with their dependencies.  With StructureMap, this means a call to ObjectFactory.GetInstance.  Ideally, we’d like to … Continue reading →

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StructureMap: Interlude

Posted on July 26, 2008 by Chad Myers

I’m trying to wrap up the “StructureMap: Advanced Scenarios Usage” post. In the meantime, I wanted to make you aware of a few things: I just updated my StructureMap: Basic Scenario Usage post with a correction. I was mistaken about … Continue reading →

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StructureMap: Medium-level Usage Scenarios

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Chad Myers

This is a follow-on to my previous post about basic usage scenarios for StructureMap.  This post will focus on slightly more advanced usage scenarios and how StructureMap handles them.  For those playing the home game, I’m still working on the … Continue reading →

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StructureMap: Basic Scenario Usage

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Chad Myers

First, I’m going to assume that you are somewhat already familiar with the concepts of Dependency Injection and what, in general, an Inversion of Control Container is for. If not, you may find these links helpful: http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller/archive/2005/10/06/132825.aspx   I’m … Continue reading →

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