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1 Dec

2022

Refactoring Bloated Controllers with [FromService]

By: David Starr Category:General Post3 Comments

In my previous article, Refactoring Bloated Controllers with IServiceProvider, I explored using the Service Locator Pattern to reduce the number of services injected into an ASP.NET MVC controller constructor. While a convenient way to reduce the number of constructor arguments, using IServiceProvider does have some potential downsides. It has been a few years since I […]

26 Nov

2022

Refactoring Bloated Controllers with IServiceProvider

By: David Starr Category:General Post7 Comments

I have come into an ASP.NET MVC project that has a HomeController that takes at least 10 service arguments in its constructor. My first line of attack is to factor out the Action methods into separate controllers that only need a subset of the injected services to work properly. So, first and foremost I recognize […]