Question

Can anyone think of a good solution for getting IOC into a console application?

At the moment we are just using a static class with the following method:

public static T Resolve<T>() {     return dependencyResolver.Resolve<T>(); } 

I would like the experience to be seamless but cannot think of a way of achieving this from a console application.

Answer 1

You will have to make a service locater call (Resolve<T>()) somewhere. The trick is to get it as out-of-the-way as possible. For console applications this bootstrapping happens in the Main() method. Do it there and minimize those Resolve calls elsewhere and you’ll be great. For most dependencies, use constructor injection.