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Autofac

9.0 8.0 L5 VS MEF VS Autofac

An addictive .NET IoC container
Ninject

8.4 7.2 L4 VS MEF VS Ninject

the ninja of .net dependency injectors

Truly a developer’s best friend

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Scrutor

7.9 6.1 L5 VS MEF VS Scrutor

Assembly scanning and decoration extensions for Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection
Unity

7.5 0.0 L4 VS MEF VS Unity

This repository contains all relevant information about Unity Container suit
Castle Windsor

7.4 6.7 L5 VS MEF VS Castle Windsor

Castle Windsor is a best of breed, mature Inversion of Control container available for .NET
Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection

7.3 0.0 L5 VS MEF VS Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection

The default IoC container for ASP.NET Core applications.
StructureMap

6.6 0.0 L4 VS MEF VS StructureMap

A Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control tool for .NET
Simple Injector

6.5 5.0 L4 VS MEF VS Simple Injector

An easy, flexible, and fast Dependency Injection library that promotes best practice to steer developers towards the pit of success.
TinyIoC

6.3 1.1 L2 VS MEF VS TinyIoC

An easy to use, hassle free, Inversion of Control Container for small projects, libraries and beginners alike.
DryIoc is fast, small, full-featured IoC Container for .NET

5.8 9.5 VS MEF VS DryIoc is fast, small, full-featured IoC Container for .NET

DryIoc is fast, small, full-featured IoC Container for .NET
DryIoc

5.8 9.5 VS MEF VS DryIoc

DryIoc is fast, small, full-featured IoC Container for .NET
LightInject

5.4 2.6 L2 VS MEF VS LightInject

An ultra lightweight IoC container
Lamar

5.0 6.8 VS MEF VS Lamar

Fast Inversion of Control Tool and Successor to StructureMap
Meet Grace

3.8 1.6 VS MEF VS Meet Grace

Grace is a feature rich dependency injection container library
Stashbox

2.7 7.8 VS MEF VS Stashbox

A lightweight, fast and portable dependency injection framework for .NET based solutions.
Simplify.DI

1.4 8.5 VS MEF VS Simplify.DI

Simplify is an open-source set of .NET libraries that provide infrastructure for your applications. DI and mocking friendly.
ServiceLayer

1.1 0.0 VS MEF VS ServiceLayer

Design and Implement ServiceLayer that Integrated With FluentValidation
AdaskoTheBeAsT.AutoMapper.SimpleInjector

0.7 4.9 VS MEF VS AdaskoTheBeAsT.AutoMapper.SimpleInjector

AutoMapper extensions to SimpleInjector
AdaskoTheBeAsT.FluentValidation.SimpleInjector

0.7 3.5 VS MEF VS AdaskoTheBeAsT.FluentValidation.SimpleInjector

FluentValidation extensions to SimpleInjector

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README

VS MEF (Visual Studio's flavor of the Managed Extensibility Framework)

Features

A new, faster host for your existing MEF parts
Reuse the MEF attributes you're already using
ExportFactory<T> support to create sub-containers with scoped lifetime (i.e. sharing boundaries)

Documentation

[Why VS-MEF?](doc/why.md)
[Differences between .NET MEF, NuGet MEF and VS MEF](doc/mef_library_differences.md)
[Hosting](doc/hosting.md)
[more docs](doc/index.md)