How to use Ninject Conventions extension without referencing Assembly (or Types within it)

Question

Sorry in advance for the long question, it\'s long because I\'ve been digging at this all day.

The general problem:

I have an ASP.Net MVC2 application with

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this is a typo in your example, but I did notice that you've written

kernel.Scan(a => {
    a.From("MyApp.Data");
    // etc.
}

But shouldn't that be

kernel.Scan(a => {
    a.From("MyApp.Data.dll")
    // etc.
});

Because if I include the .dll part in my example project it works, but if I leave it out I receive a FileNotFoundException.