Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast

Jeremy Miller has created an open-source IoC tool called Lamar. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: StructureMap has been sunsetted Instead, consider Lamar for your IoC container needs. Nested containers At one point I was rambling about ASP.NET Core’s inability to use the service locator pattern. Some quick points: Don’t use Service Locator, there are lots of other better patterns to use. DO NOT DO IT. If you absolutely need it: here’s a blog post about it. I was incorrect in the podcast by making a sweeping statement about ASP.NET Core not having service locator. But for a very specific, narrow case where I wanted to use the service locator pattern recently, I was unable to do so. This might have been my own failing, or something that just isn’t possible with the built-in ASP.NET IoC. I have not tried this very specific, narrow use case with Lamar yet. I plugged my book, AOP in .NET yet again. Lamar is named after Mirabeau Lamar (a hero o