Autofac in web applications, where should I store the container for easy access?

Question

I\'m still pretty new to using Autofac and one thing I miss in the documentation and examples is how to make it easy to get to the configured container from different places

Answer 1

Having IOC container globally available is not a best practice. Even passing container is not encouraged.

If dependency injection can not be used (you need to create\request objects after component has been created) then you can:

1. Use hand-coded factories (factory is injected to the component and component uses factory to create other objects)
2. Use Autofac delegate factories or new auto-generated factories in Autofac 2.