Mastering Ninject for Dependency Injection

ASP.NET Web Forms applications

ASP.NET Web Forms is not as extensible as MVC or WCF, and it is not possible to tweak its UI engine to support activation of pages without a default constructor. This limitation of Web Forms applications prevents making use of the Constructor Injection pattern. However, it is still possible to use other DI patterns such as an initializer method.

In order to set up Ninject for a Web Forms application, we need to add a reference to the Ninject.Web extension. This extension requires to have referenced Ninject.Web.Common and Ninject as well. If we use NuGet package manager, these libraries will be referenced automatically as soon as we make a reference to Ninject.Web. It will also create two classes in the App_Start ...