Can someone explain Microsoft Unity?

Question

I\'ve been reading the articles on MSDN about Unity (Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control), but I think I need it explained in simple terms (or simple examples). I\'m

Answer 1

I just watched the 30 minute Unity Dependency Injection IoC Screencast by David Hayden and felt that was a good explaination with examples. Here is a snippet from the show notes:

The screencast shows several common usages of the Unity IoC, such as:

• Creating Types Not In Container
• Registering and Resolving TypeMappings
• Registering and Resolving Named TypeMappings
• Singletons, LifetimeManagers, and the ContainerControlledLifetimeManager
• Registering Existing Instances
• Injecting Dependencies into Existing Instances
• Populating the UnityContainer via App.config / Web.config
• Specifying Dependencies via Injection API as opposed to Dependency Attributes
• Using Nested ( Parent-Child ) Containers