How to use Dependency Injection with ASP.NET Web Forms

Question

I am trying to work out a way to use dependency injection with ASP.NET Web Forms controls.

I have got lots of controls that create repositories directly, and use tho

Answer 1

This is a solution I recently used to avoid hooking into the pipeline (I find that confuses everyone that looks at my code in the future, but yes, I see its benefits as well):

public static class TemplateControlExtensions
{
    static readonly PerRequestObjectManager perRequestObjectManager = new PerRequestObjectManager();

    private static WIIIPDataContext GetDataContext(this TemplateControl templateControl)
    {
        var dataContext = (WIIIPDataContext) perRequestObjectManager.GetValue("DataContext");

        if (dataContext == null) 
        {
           dataContext = new WIIIPDataContext();
           perRequestObjectManager.SetValue("DataContext", dataContext);   
        }

        return dataContext;
    }

    public static IMailer GetMailer(this TemplateControl templateControl)
    {
        return (IMailer)IoC.Container.Resolve(typeof(IMailer));
    }

    public static T Query(this TemplateControl templateControl, Query query)
    {
        query.DataContext = GetDataContext(templateControl);
        return query.GetQuery();
    }

    public static void ExecuteCommand(this TemplateControl templateControl, Command command)
    {
        command.DataContext = GetDataContext(templateControl);
        command.Execute();
    }

    private class PerRequestObjectManager
    {
        public object GetValue(string key)
        {
            if (HttpContext.Current != null && HttpContext.Current.Items.Contains(key))
                return HttpContext.Current.Items[key];
            else
                return null;
        }

        public void SetValue(string key, object newValue)
        {
            if (HttpContext.Current != null)
                HttpContext.Current.Items[key] = newValue;
        }
    }
}

This shows how you can create your own life time manager pretty easily as well as hook into an IoC container if you so desire. Oh, and I am also using a query/command structure which is sort of unrelated, but more on the reasoning behind that can be found here:

Limit your abstractions: Refactoring toward reduced abstractions