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Asked: 2026-05-26T20:16:23+00:00

I’m using MVC 3 and using the following code when the application starts… UnityContainer

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I’m using MVC 3 and using the following code when the application starts…

UnityContainer container = new UnityContainer();

new UnityMappings(container);

DependencyResolver.SetResolver(new UnityServiceLocator(container));

Now when the app runs I’m getting the following error (but only sometimes)…

Activation error occured while trying to get instance of type
IControllerFactory, key “”

Interestingly, if I continue with the web request, the website works normally.

Any ideas? I can’t see what I’m doing differently from before when this worked fine.

Cheers, Ian.

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  1. Editorial Team

    MVC3 requests a lot more than just controllers from the DependencyResolver. For most of them MVC3 falls back to the default implementation in case the DependencyResolver does not return an instance.

    In your case it requests the IControllerFactory which is unknown to your IoC container and it throws an exception which is caught by the UnityServiceLocator implementation and null is returned. MVC then falls back to the default controller factory.

    Unlike other IoC containers Unity does not provide an optional TryResolve and therefore does not support a proper exceptionless implementation of the DependencyResolver.

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