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Theodore Karropoulos
Theodore Karropoulos

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Dependency Injection Lifetime in .NET

.NET supports the dependency injection (DI) software design pattern, which is a technique for achieving Inversion of Control (IoC) between classes and their dependencies.

All these dependencies are registered inside the Startup.cs within ConfigureServices method of our application and must have a specific lifetime.

Service Lifetimes

Services can be registered with one of the following available lifetimes:

  • Transient
  • Scoped
  • Singleton

Transient Scope

When a service is been registered as transient it means a new instance of the service is created, every time you request it.
To register a service as transient use the AddTransient extension method. For example.

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddTransient<IMyTransientService, MyTransientService>();
}
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Scoped Scope

When a service is registered as scoped, a new instance of the service is been created for each scope/request. Within the scope the existing instance of the service is used.
To register a service as scoped use the AddScoped extension method as shown in the following code snippet.

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddScoped<IMyScopedService, MyScopedService>();
}
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Singleton Scope

When a service is registered as singleton it means that only one instance of that service is been created during the application lifetime.
To register a service as singleton use the AddSingleton extension method as shown in the following code snippet.

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddScoped<IMySingletonService, MySingletonService>();
}
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