Overview

Autofac is a wonderful Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control .NET container written by Nicholas Blumhardt.

In fact it is so good, that the entire xLim 2 got migrated to it from Castle/Windsor Container in a couple of days and has gained a lot from that transition.

And if I had to choose between autofac and R#, I would keep the container. I actually had to make this choice when migrating from Castle (there was no R# 4.0 with the lambda support at that time).

Features

• Deterministic disposal of components
• Expression-based configuration
• Proper support for multi-scoped component resolution
• High performance
• Lean codebase

Articles

• Structuring .NET Applications with Autofac IoC
• Component-Driven Development and IoC Containers
• Developing Component-Driven Applications powered by IoC Containers
• Visualize Autofac Components and Dependencies

Additionally, you can browse through the posts belonging to Autofac category.

References

• Downloads
• Project Homepage
• Roadmap
• Community
• Issue Tracker
• Sources
• Continuous Integration

Documentation shortcuts:

• Xml Configuration
• Improving Performance