NInject: Where do you keep your reference to the Kernel?

Question

I\'m using NInject on a new web application and there are two things that are unclear to me:

1. Don\'t I need to keep a reference to the Kernel around (Session/App

Answer 1

This is a common pitfall when starting to use a IoC container. See this related question.

In a nutshell:

• It's bad practice to pass your container around (been there, done that, and it really hurts)
• If you really need to invocate directly the container, first consider abstracting to an injected factory, then as a last resource consider using a static gateway to the container