Using Dependency Injection frameworks for classes with many dependencies

Question

I have been looking at various dependency injection frameworks for .NET as I feel the project I am working on would greatly benefit from it. While I think I have a good grasp of

Answer 1

To partially answer my first question, I've just found a blog post by Jeremy Miller, showing how Structure Map and setter injection can be used to auto-populate public properties of your objects. He uses ILogger as an example:

var container = new Container(r =>
{
    r.FillAllPropertiesOfType().TheDefault.Is
        .ConstructedBy(context => new Logger(context.ParentType));
});

This means that any classes with an ILogger property, e.g.:

public class ClassWithLogger
{
    public ILogger Logger { get; set; }
}

public class ClassWithLogger2
{
    public ILogger Logger { get; set; }
}

will have their Logger property automatically set up when constructed:

container.GetInstance();