VS MEF vs Ninject

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VS MEF		Ninject
	Project
1	Mentions	2
403	Stars	2,657
2.2%	Growth	0.2%
9.3	Activity	0.0
7 days ago	Latest Commit	10 months ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

VS MEF

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

.NET Core plugin system
1 project | /r/csharp | 1 Oct 2022

This is good info! I had not heard of MEF being split up like this. Looks like there's a full explanation of everything here: https://github.com/microsoft/vs-mef/blob/main/doc/mef_library_differences.md

Ninject

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

Is it possible to use both Ninject and Microsoft Dependency injection in a app?
1 project | /r/csharp | 14 Nov 2022

Yes, you can. We use SimpleInjector + our own container abstractions in conjunction with MS one. Also consider reading this - https://github.com/ninject/Ninject/issues/278
It do be like that
1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 10 Oct 2022

Then I learned about dependency injection and it suddenly all made perfect sense. I recommend reading this and the following chapter.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing VS MEF and Ninject you can also consider the following projects:

Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection

Autofac - An addictive .NET IoC container

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

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.

Castle Windsor - Castle Windsor is a best of breed, mature Inversion of Control container available for .NET

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