Developers typically use field injection only on small projects and prototypes, due to its inability to support immutable variables and the incompatibilities it creates with many testing frameworks.

Before you can begin refactoring, you need to know what to look for. I'm a very visual person, so whenever I work on refactoring a large or complex application, I begin by whiteboarding all components ...

I've used Dependency Injection (DI) in a number of my columns. My container of choice is Castle Windsor. While Windsor makes IoC easy, there have been a few occasions where I've needed to push things ...