How deeply does Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core cover service container?

Explains interfaces, registration, injection, lifetimes, reuse, and disposal, while stopping short of container internals.

Service container

As explained in Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core

A service container is a registry and runtime that stores service definitions, creates or reuses service instances, and manages their lifetimes.

A service container is a registry and runtime for application services. In ASP.NET Core, the built-in IServiceProvider stores service registrations, creates or reuses instances, manages configured lifetimes, and disposes dependencies when they are no longer needed. section 1.2.1

A typical service-container workflow has three practical steps:

Implement each service behind an interface or base class, using framework, application, or third-party implementations. section 1.2.1
Register and configure services in Program.cs, choosing Transient, Scoped, or Singleton lifetime behavior. section 1.2.1
Request services through a class constructor; the framework supplies a new or existing instance according to its lifetime. section 1.2.1

Framework-provided services

An application can register and inject services such as IAuthorizationService for policy-based permissions or IEmailService for sending email messages. section 1.2.1

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Related concepts

ASP.NET Core Identityused by · ASP.NET Core Identity is an extensible ASP.NET Core membership system for managing user accounts, credentials, claims, roles, authentication, and related identity data.
serviceconfigures · A service is a capability or activity provided by an entity to meet the needs of users or other components.
dependency injectionuses · Dependency injection is a software design technique in which a component receives its dependencies from outside rather than creating or locating them internally.

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