How to use autofac in an UWP app?

Question

I am using autofac in an UWP application. In my App instance, I am setting up the dependency, like this:

public sealed partial class App
{
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Answer 1

I'm very new to UWP (but a very old hand at .NET/WPF etc etc), so this might be hacky, but I by-passed the Frame.Navigate method altogether by putting the following at the top of my OnLaunched method:

        if (Window.Current.Content == null)
        {
            var windowFrame = new Frame()
            {
                Content = new MainPage()
            };

            Window.Current.Content = windowFrame;
            Window.Current.Activate();

            return;
        }

You then control the creation of your mainpage - if you want to support DI, then you can use something like:

            var windowFrame = new Frame()
            {
                Content = container.GetInstance()
            };

This then means that MainPage becomes your CompositionRoot and your DI flows from there.

My guess is that you then don't get any navigate back/forward functionality, although I may be wrong...my app is only single-page so I've not seen if that is a problem or not...