Is ninject considered a container?

Question

Hi,

I was talking with someone and mentioned I was learning IOC and was using ninject to get the feel for things.

He asked me what container I was using? I told him ninject.

Having no idea what he was referring to, I know there is castle windsor products that are more popular.

Can someone clear this up for me? What am I missing here?

Answer 1

Yes, Ninject is an IoC/DI Container framework/library.

There's a great post by Scott Hanselman that lists many of the .NET DI Container libraries. See also Dependency injection for an explanation of containers (injectors).