angular2-di

I'm trying to inverse the way forms controls are registering themselves onto a FormGroup , so that instead of having to @Component({..., template: `<input [formControl]="myControl"`} ... Or @Component({..., template: `<input [formControName]="myControlName"`} ... I could @Component({..., template: `<input myFormControl`} ... And have my directive create and add the FormControl for me. It is best explained with this Plunker . What doesn't seem to work is the binding the view to the form model, as you can see, changing the the input does not change the form model value. Debugging it shows that

I have a @Injectable service defined in bootstrap. I want to get the instance of the service without using constructor injection. I tried using ReflectiveInjector.resolveAndCreate but that seem to create a new instance. The reason I'm trying to do is I have a base component derived by many components. Now I need to access a service but I don't want to add it to the ctor because I don't want to inject the service on all of the derivative components. TLDR: I need a ServiceLocator.GetInstance<T>() UPDATE: Updated code for RC5+: Storing injector instance for use in components Yes,

I have been trying to figure out how the (DI) Dependency Injection work in Angular2. I ran into lots of problem/issue every time when I tried to Inject a service/or class into my components. From different googled articles, I need to either use providers: [] in the Component configuration, or sometimes I need to use @Inject() in my constructor or inject directly in the bootstrap(app, [service]) ? I've also seen some articles want me to put @injectable decorator. For example: to inject Http, I only need to import{Http} and put Http in the providers, but for FormBuilder, I need to use @Inject()