Ninject – Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control

A lot advanced programmers certainly have heard of this two big words, Dependency Injection (DI) & Inversion of Control (IoC). Mainly known as very desirable pattern for solutions on software projects because they enable a nice and clean architecture and loosely cloupling between the various software components.

But before I start giving a big speech about DI & IoC, first I’ll start with a pratical example, using C# (because Ninject was implemented for .NET), to explain what really are this big two words. Then I’ll talk about the practical application of Ninject, and the importance of these two patterns, and also give a little example on how to use the Ninject Extension MVC, to allow the usage of this two patterns on your ASP.NET MVC application. So let’s start with the example…

How to use Gravatar on your Web Application

This will be a very small post but still I think you will appreciate it. Imagine you have a nice Web Application with a small user component, and you want to add the possibility of showing a user’s photo using Gravatar.