Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) implementation used by Visual Studio.

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• Autofac

  9.0 8.1 L5 VS MEF VS Autofac

  An addictive .NET IoC container

• Ninject

  8.6 7.0 L4 VS MEF VS Ninject

  The ninja of .net dependency injectors

• Castle Windsor

  7.5 5.2 L5 VS MEF VS Castle Windsor

  Castle Windsor is best of breed, mature Inversion of Control container available for .NET and Silverlight

• Unity

  7.5 5.4 L4 VS MEF VS Unity

  Lightweight extensible dependency injection container with support for constructor, property, and method call injection

• Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection

  7.4 4.2 L5 VS MEF VS Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection

  The default IoC container for ASP.NET Core applications.

• StructureMap

  6.9 2.1 L4 VS MEF VS StructureMap

  The original IoC/DI Container for .Net

• Simple Injector

  6.3 8.6 L4 VS MEF VS Simple Injector

  Simple Injector is an easy-to-use Dependency Injection (DI) library for .NET 4+ that supports Silverlight 4+, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 including Universal apps and Mono.

• TinyIoC

  6.2 1.4 L2 VS MEF VS TinyIoC

  Single-file, easy and cross-platform IoC container

• Scrutor

  6.0 6.1 L5 VS MEF VS Scrutor

  Assembly scanning extensions for Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.

• LightInject

  5.1 6.0 L2 VS MEF VS LightInject

  A ultra lightweight IoC container

• Lamar

  3.6 8.0 VS MEF VS Lamar

  A fast IoC container heavily optimized for usage within ASP.NET Core and other .NET server side applications.

• Meet Grace

  3.4 7.5 VS MEF VS Meet Grace

  Grace is a feature rich dependency injection container library

• Simplify.DI

  1.2 9.0 VS MEF VS Simplify.DI

  Decouples users and frameworks (that are based on Simplify.DI) from dependency on IOC containers. Instead of that, they will only depend on Simplify.DI interface.

• ServiceLayer

  1.1 0.0 VS MEF VS ServiceLayer

  Design and Implement ServiceLayer that Integrated With FluentValidation

• DryIoc

  - - VS MEF VS DryIoc

  Simple, fast all fully featured IoC container.

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