.NET Junkie

Thanks for everybody who replied to my last blog post about the Simple Service Locator. Because of all the reactions, I'm currently seriously considering to loose the hard dependency on the Common Service Locator. I’m currently trying to come up with a solution where I can have a soft dependency on de Common Service Locator (by loading the assembly with Assembly.Load and using lightweight code generation to generate a IServiceLocator implementation), but this currently seems very fragile.

An other thing I'm currently considering is removing the possibility to do keyed registrations (registering instances by a string key). The reason is the same as with removing the hard dependency on the Common Service Locator: I think it makes little sense when doing dependency injection.

Before making such a change I again want to consult my users and followers. So can you tell me if you are using keyed registrations today in your projects (with the Simple Service Locator or any DI framework for that matter) and have any reason to believe that you can't easily change it to using factories.

Please drop a note in the comments below or send me a mail (to steven at this domain) if you prefer that.

Thanks.

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