Avalonia UI - 06 - Dependency Injection

Hello everyone and welcome to this new episode of the Avalonia UI series. In this video we'll dive into Dependency Injection and how to use it inside an Avalonia project. ► DI definitions: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection Microsoft learn: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/dependency-injection ► 3rd party DI containers: DI in Avalonia using Lamar by Khalid Abuhakmeh: https://khalidabuhakmeh.com/dependency-injection-with-avalonia-ui-apps) DI using Reactive Splat: https://www.reactiveui.net/docs/handbook/dependency-inversion/ ► DI using Microsoft packages StackOverflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71119254/avaloniaui-what-is-the-proper-way-to-inject-viewmodels-into-views-using-compos Add MsExtensionsHostingSample sample project PR: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia.Samples/pull/64 Sample code to set up view locator using Microsoft DI from kekekeks: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia.Samples/issues/35#issuecomment-1328118863 Reddit question: https://www.reddit.com/r/AvaloniaUI/comments/ssplp9/microsoftextensionsdependencyinjection_to_inject/ ► CommunityToolkit Experimental package Experimental package PR: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/discussions/463 How to fetch packages from the community toolkit preview Nuget Feed: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit/wiki/Preview-Packages Example project to showcase the use of the CommunityToolkit Experimental package: https://github.com/stevemonaco/AvaloniaViewModelFirstDemos ► GitHub repo: https://github.com/MammaMiaDev/avaloniaui-the-series 0:00 Intro 0:52 Dependency Injection 2:08 DI in Avalonia 2:56 3rd party DI containers 3:40 Microsoft DI packages 4:31 Community Toolkit Labs DI package 5:31 Sample project 6:36 Conclusions