What is the intention of Ninject modules?

Question

I\'m a complete newbie to ninject

I\'ve been pulling apart someone else\'s code and found several instances of nInject modules - classes that derive from Ninject.Mod

Answer 1

Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but what is the benefit of this over just creating a plain old class and calling its method, or perhaps a static class with a static method?

Yes, you can just call a bunch of Bind().To() statements to setup the bindings, without a module.

The difference is that if you put these statements in a module then:

• IKernel.Load(IEnumerable) can dynamically discover such modules through reflection and load them.
• the bindings are logically grouped together under a name; you can use this name to unload them again with IKernel.Unload(string)