Dependency Injection

Overriding ASP.NET Core Framework-Provided Services

You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes

David Pine

4 minute read

Overview In .NET it’s really easy to create your own interfaces and implementations. Likewise, it’s seemingly effortless to register them for dependency injection. But it is not always obvious how to override existing implementations. Let’s discuss various aspects of “dependency injection” and how you can override the “framework-provided services”. As an example, let’s take a recent story on our product backlog for building a security audit of login attempts. The story involved the capture of attempted usernames along with their corresponding IP addresses.