Inversion of Control Create Application

First, let's create a .NET Core console application project in Visual Studio. We will use this project to explore the inversion of control in the subsequent articles.

The easiest way to create a .NET Core console application is to open Visual Studio and create a C# web project using the Console App (.NET Core) template.

Click the Next button, and it will open the Configure your new project page.

Enter the name of the project IocDemo; you can also change the Location and Solution name. Click the Create button, and it will create a project.

Let's say we want to implement logging in our application. To make it simple we are going to target a text file for logging.

In the console application project, let's add a class file named FileLogger.cs and add the following code.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace IoCDemo
{
    public class FileLogger
    {
        public void Log(string message)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Inside Log method of FileLogger.");
            LogToFile(message);
        }
        private void LogToFile(string message)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Method: LogToFile, Text: {0}", message);
        }
    }
}

Let's add one more class file named CustomerService.cs and add the following code.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace IoCDemo
{
    public class CustomerService
    {
        private readonly FileLogger _fileLogger = new FileLogger();
        public void Log(string message)
        {
            _fileLogger.Log(message);
        }
    }
}

There is nothing wrong with the above implementation, but it has a limitation that we can only log the data to a text file. You can't in any way log data to other data sources or different log targets.