What are the best practices for class libraries using dependency injection for internal operations? [duplicate]

Answer 1

I would use the facade pattern here: in the library, expose a public method on a public class that does the container initialization (such as a simple Initialize()), and use Castle Windsor only internally within the library, so that the library clients don't even know that you are using it.

Answer 2

Not that the answer would not work but I think anyone who lands here should take a look at this Q/A. After reading over it I MUST agree that using an IoC within a class library smells like a ServiceLocator (anti-pattern) and that Coupling a library to a container is a smell.

Initially I thought I would be doing a good thing, best thing I did was to look it up first.