How to learn Autofac fast for Windows development?

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I'm about to start a project where the IoC being used is AutoFac - at a new company. I have no prior experience with DI/IoC and want to get up to speed on this so I don't look toooo unintelligent. This will be for a WPF application (which again I'm not too cluey about but that will be OK)

What are some good resources I could use to learn Autofac and IoC in general? I start in our initial phase on Monday next week :( I've held off everything this weekend to study!

I should mention that while the idea of IoC's are great, I don't see how we carry the "container" around with us when we use it in other areas. Do we create a singleton (that seam to say badness) or do we create a static class with an accessor to GetService?

EDIT: I am reading through the codeproject article on Autofac and sort of have an idea of what IoC is trying to solve via the NInject tutorial too, but nothing solid.

I found the wiki very helpful to get me up and running on AutoFac and IoC. http://code.google.com/p/autofac/w/list — kenny, Sep 09 '10 at 11:15

score 27 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 22 '14 at 15:47

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I put up a set of simple posts on Dependency Injection (and its benefits) here. The whole thing should take perhaps 20 minutes to read.

edited Mar 22 '14 at 15:47

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answered Oct 02 '10 at 06:54

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Great read, thanks! I'm bookmarking that as my new go-to when someone asks me about Autofac again. – orkutWasNotSoBad Sep 21 '11 at 14:40
Excellnet Article you have posted, little bit indentation issue, specially about the coding, but its a great article. – Debhere Oct 05 '12 at 11:57

How to learn Autofac fast for Windows development?

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