Extending Microsoft p&p ObjectBuilder -- Visual Studio Magazine

Extending Microsoft p&p ObjectBuilder

Use ObjectBuilder to access dependency-injection benefits and avoid application performance problems.

By Daniel Cazzulino
06/01/2006

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ObjectBuilder is the latest addition to the patterns & practices toolbox—a built-in Composite UI Application Block (CAB) and Enterprise Library (EntLib). You can build powerful dependency-injection and object-composition frameworks on top of this feature. Get a brief overview of its architecture and components, and learn how you can use it to meet your applications' dependency-injection needs. Also discover extensions such as Reflection.Emit that make ObjectBuilder perform well.

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