Session Spotlight - Dependency Injection: A Practical Introduction

I'll be speaking at SoCal Code Camp (Los Angeles) on October 13 & 14.  If you're not signed up yet, head over to the website and let them know that you're coming: http://www.socalcodecamp.com/.

Also, I've got a brand new session: Dependency Injection: A Practical Introduction

How Do We Get Started With Dependency Injection?
One of the big problems with getting started with Dependency Injection (DI) is that there are a lot of different opinions on exactly what DI is and the best ways to use it.  At its core, DI is just a set of patterns for adding good abstraction to our code.  The objects we create should be focused on doing one thing and doing it well.  If there is functionality that is not core to the the object, then we "outsource" it to another class.  This external class is a dependency (our primary object depends on this other class to provide a functional whole in our application).

Dependency Injection gives us a way to keep these external dependencies separate from our objects.  Rather than the object being responsible for creating/managing the dependency, we "inject" it from the outside.  This makes sure that our classes are loosely coupled which gives us good maintainability, extensibility, and testability.

In this session, I combine my personal experience using DI with the excellent information provided by Mark Seemann in Dependency Injection in .NET (I posted a review on this book a few weeks back).

DI is an enormous topic. I have picked out a few key areas (like examining tight-coupling and loose-coupling) and design patterns that will give us a good starting point for the world of DI.  (As a side note, the sample code also gives a quick example of using the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) design pattern.)

If you can't make it out to the SoCal Code Camp, you have another chance to see this session at the Desert Code Camp (in the Phoenix, AZ area) in November.  And as always, the code samples and walkthrough are posted on my website.

Hope to see you at an upcoming event.

Happy Coding!