NInject and Umbraco Trouble? Or simply need to extend Global.asax?

So Bluetube Interactive has recently been doing a lot of Umbraco projects, rolling out several new sites on the platform.  As a method of speeding development, all of our projects leverage Injection frameworks and our framework of choice for .NET is NInject.  However, due Umbraco and NInject both want to extend the Global.asax, which isn't possible.  So what is a developer to do?

The answer is surprisingly simple.  Although Umbraco does in fact extend Global.asax in its own class, it turns out it does not have a significant use... or at least one not significant enough to prevent us from wanting to use our Injection framework of choice.

In the bin folder, find a remove the following file:

App_global.asax.dll

Having issue with App_Browsers too?  It seems Umbraco inherits from that as well.

App_Browsers.dll

Both can be safely removed and at least to this point, we have not seen a negative impact.

Also, remmber with NInject you'll want to inherit from Ninject.Web.UserControlBase, not from WebControlBase.

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Comments

[steve]

Hi, so you got ninject working with umbraco 4.x?

[Grant Davies]

Hi Steve, we've used it with several umbraco 4.x sites that are in production, did you have a specific challenge with it ?