Question

I’m moving to using the SimpleIoc for Dependency Injection from using a Static class. There is a Register<TClass>(Func<TClass> factory) where TClass : class method in the SimpleIoc, but I can’t find any examples of using it. Here’s a link to the source code.

Am I approaching this correctly, or does DI always need to create it at register time? Is this the method I should use to register the class? Can you give me an example on how to do this?

This is the Silverlight code I’m trying to update.
EDIT: moved my approach to an answer

Answer 1

I moved my example from my question to an answer, since no one else has answered it in 22 days. EDIT: this is better.

   public partial class App : Application
   {               
            /// <summary>
            /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="App"/> class.
            /// </summary>
            public App()
            {
              this.Startup += (s, e) =>
              {
                // create and register it now
                SimpleIoc.Default.Register<IUserToken>(() => { return new UserToken(); });
                 SimpleIoc.Default.GetInstance<IUserToken>().PopulateUserTokenFromService(() =>
                {
                  // don't do anything until the user token is populated from the server
                  InitializeComponent();                 

                  this.RootVisual = new View();
                });
              }
            }