What is the best way to use Ninject with MVC 3 and how?

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What is the best way to use Ninject with MVC 3 and how ?

It is using a controller factory ? or using NinjectHttpApplication ?

How to get ninject for MVC 3 ? Ive looked around but i can't seem to figure out how to get the required ..mvc.dll

Any exemples would be helpful to me and others.

Thanks!

BrokenGlass · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-17T03:23:18.110

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The best and simplest way to get Ninject for MVC 3 is adding the NuGet package Ninject.MVC3 using the NuGet Package Manager from within Visual Studio.

This will set up everything for you, add an App_Start folder to your application which contains NinjectMVC3.cs. At this point everything is already hooked up as Controller Factory thanks to WebActivator - you can just add your bindings in RegisterServices() or of course put them in a separate module.

edited Sep 17 '11 at 03:23

answered Sep 17 '11 at 03:18

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What the avantage in putting them in seperate module, also what a module ? – Rushino Sep 17 '11 at 15:12
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@Rushino: Ninject modules allow you to have a set of bindings encapsulated in their own class - for a complete explanation see this SO thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2056409/what-is-the-intention-of-ninject-modules – BrokenGlass Sep 17 '11 at 16:08

Marco Staffoli · Answer 2 · 2011-12-05T15:09:51.610

For me the best way is to exted from NinjectHttpApplication in the global.asax and then override the IKernel CreateKernel() method

public class MvcApplication : NinjectHttpApplication {
  ...
  ...

  protected override IKernel CreateKernel() {
    var kernel = new StandardKernel();
    kernel.Load(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());
    // Register services with Ninject DI Container    
    kernel.Bind<IFileSystemService>().To<FileSystemService>();
    return kernel;
  }

  ...
}

What is the best way to use Ninject with MVC 3 and how?

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