Dependency Injection – Registering Generic Types in ASP.NET Core
Shubhan Chemburkar
This post is cross post from archived blog at worldwidecode.wordpress.com
Source: Steve Gordon’s blog post
We want to be able to ask for an IThing<SomeType> in the constructor of a consumer which will get the correct GenericThing<SomeType> injected. We can use a extension method on the ServiceCollection that accepts the types as parameters. Our registration would then look like this
serviceCollection.AddSingleton(typeof(IThing<>), typeof(GenericThing<>));
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