Structuremap, AutoFac, or Ninject, which one is great for a large scale web app?

asp.net-mvc-3 ninject structuremap autofac

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Solution 1

I think there is no differences between them! Its associated on your-self. Every body has some favorites, and you too. I use StructureMap and its good enough for large and/or small scale applications.

UPDATE:

Well, a few months ago I met with Simple Injector which is really really simple, and actually fast. I've used it in several projects with different scales, and it really works perfectly.

Solution 2

This article has a good summary of most popular IoC frameworks and discusses their performance as well as ease of use. All in all a great read!

http://philipm.at/2011/di_speed.html

& a follow-up at http://philipm.at/2011/di_speed_redux.html

Solution 3

If you are interested in HOW they are used in large scale web apps, one good one to look at is OrchardCMS; it uses Autofac.

Solution 4

I've only really looked at / used Ninject and simply haven't bothered looking at any others. The simplicity in usage & it's low learning curve fit my last couple of projects very well. IMO, it is a great IoC container for projects large and small.

Solution 5

I've used Unity (some time ago), AutoFac and StructureMap and prefer StructureMap, specifically for its AssertConfigurationIsValid method which I use in unit tests to, well, assert that my StructureMap configuration is valid (relevant if you're using constructor-based DI).

As far as I'm aware only StructureMap offers this facility.

When using ASP.NET MVC, I also like how the StructureMap NuGet package wires things up for you nicely.

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amiry jd

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Updated on April 16, 2020

Comments

amiry jd about 4 years

I have some experience in working by Structuremap. And now I'm creating a big and large scale web app (really a social networking site) using ASP.NET MVC 3, Entity Framework 4.1 code-first, SqlServer 2008, via C#.NET 4. Which one of Structuremap, AutoFac, and Ninject would you suggest me to use in this case? Performance and easy-of-use is important. Thanks to any help, idea and suggestion.
Marc L. over 12 years

NopCommerce is a widely used (very scalable, used for some very large installations) open-source e-commerce engine that uses Autofac as well (it recently moved off of Unity).
amiry jd over 12 years

+1 A good and perfect article. So thanks
Adam Tuliper over 12 years

it is a good article, but beware of the unity comments from an invalid test.
mdonatas about 11 years

Additional post about IoC framework performance palmmedia.de/Blog/2011/8/30/… with benchmark code at GitHub github.com/danielpalme/IocPerformance
Victor Yarema about 6 years

It seems to me that the follow-up is even more important than the first article.
joe about 4 years

Simple injector is good...but with push-developers-into-best-practices. It requires you to go for best practices in many cases. This might be a good point to a new project(for example, you are only allowed to have one public constructor), but it can be hard to adapt to existing projects that don't follow those practices.