patterns & practices - Unity

Project Description
The Unity Application Block (Unity) is a lightweight extensible dependency injection container with support for constructor, property, and method call injection.

Unity addresses the issues faced by developers engaged in component-based software engineering. Modern business applications consist of custom business objects and components that perform specific or generic tasks within the application, in addition to components that individually address cross cutting concerns such as logging, authentication, authorization, caching, and exception handling.

The key to successfully building such applications is to achieve a decoupled or very loosely coupled design. Loosely coupled applications are more flexible and easier to maintain. They are also easier to test during development. You can mock up shims (lightweight mock implementations) of objects that have strong concrete dependencies; such as database connections, network connections, ERP connections, and rich user interface components.

Dependency injection is a prime technique for building loosely coupled applications. It provides ways to handle the dependencies between objects. For example, an object that processes customer information may depend on other objects that access the data store, validate the information, and check that the user is authorized to perform updates. Dependency injection techniques can ensure that the customer class correctly instantiates and populates all of these objects, especially where the dependencies may be abstract.

News

Unity 2.1 For Desktop and Silverlight - May 2011 released
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Unity 2.0 For Desktop and Silverlight - April 2010 released
Find it here!

Unity 2.0 Hands On Labs (part of Enterprise Library 5.0 Hands On Labs)
Unity 2.0 Hands On Labs have been released.

Unity For Silverlight
The official Unity 2.0 for Silverlight has been released! Find it here!

Webcast Demos
The demos from our Unity webcasts are available for download from the Webcast demos page.

Sample Code
Additional samples using Unity are available from the Code samples page.

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