overwhelmed by IOC choices

There are so many IOC ch开发者_JS百科oices, that I don't know where to begin. I've looked at Spring.NET, Unity, Ninject, Windsor, and StructureMap so far, and I have no idea what makes one better than the other. So, what is your favorite IOC, and what feature(s) makes you use it over any other?

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Try to use Common Service Locator and later you will be able to switch between containers. I prefer Unity (cos of holy faith in MS =) ) and Windsor cos of it power. Ninject has a very funny documentation, if you are not going to use it you should at least read its docs and visit its site =)

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I think more or less they have the same functionality. So it makes sense to look at:

• Documenatation quality
• Presense of comprehensive quickstarts
• Is is used in other well known products
• Is there a community around it
• How mature is it

For example, Unity:

• It has good documentation
• Quickstarts are pretty good
• It is used in Composite Application Guidance and Web Client Software Factory
• It has community around it
• It is only 1.2 (and 2.0 is coming) but nonetheless it is a successor of object builder

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For new projects I use Ninject now. I like it for its "clean", modern and simple API and its fluent configuration.