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What is Autofac?

Autofac is an Inversion of Control (IoC) container for .NET. It manages the dependencies between classes so that applications become easier to change as they grow. Autofac is commonly used for dependency injection, enabling loosely coupled and testable applications.

What other technologies are related to Autofac?

Autofac Competitor Technologies

Ninject is another dependency injection framework, offering similar functionality to Autofac.
mentioned alongside Autofac in 60% (290) of relevant job posts
SimpleIoc is a simpler dependency injection container and service locator, filling a similar role as Autofac.
mentioned alongside Autofac in 96% (113) of relevant job posts
MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) is a dependency injection framework from Microsoft, serving a similar purpose to Autofac.
mentioned alongside Autofac in 8% (68) of relevant job posts

Autofac Complementary Technologies

NSubstitute is a mocking framework, often used alongside Autofac to mock dependencies in unit tests.
mentioned alongside Autofac in 28% (232) of relevant job posts
Moq is a mocking framework, often used alongside Autofac to mock dependencies during unit testing.
mentioned alongside Autofac in 9% (336) of relevant job posts
NHibernate is an ORM. It can be combined with Autofac to manage the dependencies of the services that interact with the database.
mentioned alongside Autofac in 6% (275) of relevant job posts

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