How to inject a Converter in XAML

Question

I have an IValueConverter implemented class and I need it to be injected using my DI container (Ninject).

The problem is, in XAML, there\'s no immediately obvious way to

Answer 1

A common way to handle this is for your converter to also be a MarkupExtension. That is:

public class MyConverter : MarkupExtension, IValueConverter

Your ProvideValue() method can return an instance of your converter, thus allowing you to use it like this:

Source="{Binding CurrentMessage, Converter={local:MyConverter SomeParameterToConverter}}"

This isn't really anything to do with DI, but it does address your requirement to eliminate the code behind. I don't really see the point of having converters registered with your DI container.

Answer 2

An alternative approach is, to resolve the dependency via MarkupExtension and set it to the converter's property in XAML.

See the following answer for details:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/41611854/2115905