Chapter 6. Essential Tools for MVC
In this chapter, we are going to look at three tools that should be part of every MVC programmer's arsenal. We mentioned all three in the previous chapter: a DI container, a unit test framework, and a mocking tool.
We have picked three specific implementations of these tools for this book, but there are a lot of alternatives for each type of tool. If you can't get along with the ones we use, don't worry. There are so many out there that you're certain to find something that suits the way your mind and workflow operate.
As noted in Chapter 5, Ninject is our preferred DI container. It is simple, elegant, and easy to use. There are more sophisticated alternatives, but we like the way that Ninject works with the minimum ...
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