Unity Container

Unity container is an open source IoC container for .NET applications supported by Microsoft. It is a lightweight and extensible IoC container.

The source code for Unity container is available at https://github.com/unitycontainer/unity.

Unity Container Features:

• Simplified type-mapping registration for interface type or base type.
• Supports registration of an existing instance.
• Supports code-based registration as well as design time registration.
• Automatically injects registered type at runtime through a constructor, a property or a method.
• Supports deferred resolution.
• Supports nested containers.
• Automatic disposing of instances based on lifetime managers; lifetime managers include hierarchical, per resolve, externally controlled, per request and per thread.
• Supports service location capability; this allows clients to store or cache the container.
• Supports type interception and instance interception.
• Easy to extend.

Before we start working with the Unity container, let's learn how to install it, in the next chapter.