Overview

The Unity Container (Unity) is a full featured, extensible dependency injection container. It facilitates building loosely coupled applications and provides developers with the following advantages:

Simplified object creation, especially for hierarchical object structures and dependencies
Abstraction of requirements; this allows developers to specify dependencies at run time or in configuration and simplify management of crosscutting concerns
Increased flexibility by deferring component configuration to the container
Service location capability; this allows clients to store or cache the container
Instance and type interception
Registration by convention

Installation

Install Unity with the following command:

shell
Install-Package Unity

Unity 5.x loosely follows Semantic Versioning — minor releases may introduce breaking changes. Floating version references should lock in the minor version in addition to the major version:

xml
<PackageReference Include="Unity.Container" Version="5.x.*" />

Documentation

The documentation is a work in progress. Some info is available here but more is coming...
Feel free to open issues in Documentation project with all the questions you would like to be covered or questions you might have.

Packages & Status

Unity library consists of multiple packages. For information about each package please follow the links

Package	License	Version	Downloads
Unity (Composite)
Unity.Abstractions
Unity.Container
Unity.Configuration
Unity.Interception
Unity.Interception.Configuration
Unity.RegistrationByConvention
Unity.log4net
Unity.NLog
Unity.Microsoft.Logging
Unity.Microsoft.DependencyInjection
Unity.AspNet.WebApi
Unity.Mvc
Unity.WCF
Unity.ServiceLocation
CommonServiceLocator

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant to clarify expected behavior in our community. For more information, see the .NET Foundation Code of Conduct