Cannot resolve scoped service Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.Internal.IViewBufferScope from root provider

Question

I'm trying to use in my ASP.NET Core 2.0 web app this sample RazorViewEngineEmailTemplates to create an html email body from View. But when I run it and my controller gets an ajax request, I get this error:

Cannot resolve scoped service Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.Internal.IViewBufferScope from root provider

It's probably coming from resolving dependencies in the RazorViewToStringRenderer class but I have no idea how to fix this.

Answer 1

ok, the problem was I used renderer from a Singleton service (EmailerService). I changed its registration to Scoped and it all works now:

services.AddScoped<IEmailer, EmailerService>();

Answer 2

When a service gets injected as scoped, the dependent class must also be injected as scoped.

Unfortunately, this does not work for every use case. When creating the E-Mail service statically, you don't have an HTTP Context.

In my case, I had a scheduled Task that was executed statically by Hangfire:

var mailer = ServiceProviderSinleton.Instance.GetService(typeof(IEmailer))

When you need that scoped service from a static context, you have two options:

1. use a dependency injection framework that gives you more control over the injection context. I highly recommend DryIoc.Microsoft.DependencyInjection from NuGet. (Documentation)

2. disable the scope validation:

return WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder()
    .ConfigureLogging(builder => builder.AddSerilog(Log.Logger, dispose: true))
    .UseKestrel(options => options.ConfigureEndpoints(configuration))
    .UseContentRoot(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory())
    .UseIISIntegration()
    .UseStartup<TStartup>()
    .UseSerilog()
    .UseDefaultServiceProvider(options => options.ValidateScopes = false)
    .Build();