Constructor parameters for controllers without a DI container for ASP.NET MVC

Question

Does anyone have any code examples on how to create controllers that have parameters other than using a Dependency Injection Container?

I see plenty of samples with

Answer 1

You can use poor-man's dependency injection:

public ProductController() : this( new Foo() )
{
  //the framework calls this
}

public ProductController(IFoo foo)
{
  _foo = foo;
}