A list of (mostly) free or open source C# and ASP.NET tools, plugins and libraries for IoC (Inversion of Control), Dependency Injection (DI), Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), Inversion of control containers and more

A list of (mostly) free or open source C# and ASP.NET tools, plugins and libraries for IoC (Inversion of Control), Dependency Injection (DI), Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), Inversion of control containers and more. Sourced under a creative commons. This list will be updated regularly. Email over the URL, if you wish to be included.

C# and ASP.NET tools, plugins and libraries for IoC (Inversion of Control)

• Castle Windsor – Castle Windsor is best of breed, mature Inversion of Control container available for .NET and Silverlight
• Unity – Lightweight extensible dependency injection container with support for constructor, property, and method call injection
• Autofac – An addictive .NET IoC container
• DryIoc – Simple, fast all fully featured IoC container.
• Ninject – The ninja of .NET dependency injectors
• Spring.Net – Spring.NET is an open source application framework that makes building enterprise .NET applications easier
• Lamar – A fast IoC container heavily optimized for usage within ASP.NET Core and other .NET server side applications.
• LightInject – A ultra lightweight IoC container
• 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.
• Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection – The default IoC container for NET applications.
• Scrutor – Assembly scanning extensions for Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.
• VS MEF – Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) implementation used by Visual Studio.
• TinyIoC – An easy to use, hassle free, Inversion of Control Container for small projects, libraries and beginners alike.
• Stashbox – A lightweight, portable dependency injection framework for .NET based solutions.

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