Ninject VS Castle Windsor

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

Ninject

the ninja of .net dependency injectors (by ninject)
IoC

Castle Windsor

Castle Windsor is a best of breed, mature Inversion of Control container available for .NET (by castleproject)
IoC
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Ninject Castle Windsor
2 1
2,655 1,502
0.1% 0.1%
0.0 3.6
10 months ago about 1 month ago
C# C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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Ninject

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

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.
  • Just saw a new pattern, I call it "almost factory"
    1 project | /r/programminghorror | 4 Oct 2021
    Most of the DI containers have a feature of resolving components by name. Here's an example of a "typed factory" that can be provided by the container and the component name can be used to select the service implementation: https://github.com/castleproject/Windsor/blob/master/docs/typed-factory-facility-interface-based.md

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Ninject and Castle Windsor 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

Scrutor - Assembly scanning and decoration extensions for Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection