Castle Windsor VS Ninject

Compare Castle Windsor vs Ninject and see what are their differences.

Castle Windsor

Castle Windsor is a best of breed, mature Inversion of Control container available for .NET (by castleproject)

Ninject

the ninja of .net dependency injectors (by ninject)
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Castle Windsor Ninject
1 2
1,502 2,654
0.2% 0.1%
3.6 0.0
18 days ago 9 months ago
C# C#
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Castle Windsor

Posts with mentions or reviews of Castle Windsor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Ninject

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We haven't tracked posts mentioning Ninject yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Castle Windsor and Ninject you can also consider the following projects:

Autofac - An addictive .NET IoC container

Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection

Unity - This repository contains all relevant information about Unity Container suit

Simple Injector - An easy, flexible, and fast Dependency Injection library that promotes best practice to steer developers towards the pit of success.

DryIoc - DryIoc is fast, small, full-featured IoC Container for .NET

StructureMap - A Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control tool for .NET

LightInject - An ultra lightweight IoC container

Lamar - Fast Inversion of Control Tool and Successor to StructureMap