Can you inject dependencies into a constructor of a custom WebViewPage, using an IOC container?

Question

In MVC 3, I understand you can create custom WebViewPages. Can you inject dependencies, using constructor injection, via an IOC container?

Answer 1

It is not possible to perform constructor injection. But you can do something like this with, say, Ninject:

    public abstract class CustomViewBase : WebViewPage where TModel : class
    {
        [Inject]
        public IFace Face
        {
            get;
            set;
        }
    }

And assuming you have set up IDependencyResolver in Global.asax you should correctly have the @Face property initialised. But one important caveat: you may not access @Face in _Layout.cshtml, because (according to Brad Wilson) Layout works outside MVC, and @Face will be null when you try to access it in the layout page.

In any case I agree with the others in that the view should not have to deal with any complex logic.