Question

I have a WCF service and need to register my interfaces and my classes with structuremap, in a regular asp.net application I would do it in global.cs in onApplicationstartup since this is called before anything else, but where do I initialize my structuremap in a webservice?

Answer 1

You have multiple options:

• Put your Structuremap code in a static variable that is initialized on first access
• Use a custom ServiceHostFactory which initializes the library before creating a ServiceHost.
• Create a custom WCF ServiceBehavior which does the initialization, and apply that to all relevant services inside the ServiceLibrary.