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The Unity Application Block (Unity) is a lightweight, extensible dependency injection container. This release of Unity is a port of Unity Application Block 1.2 to Microsoft Silverlight™ 2.0.

• The Unity Application Block (Unity) is a lightweight, extensible dependency injection container. It facilitates building loosely coupled applications and provides developers with the following advantages:
  
  • simplified object creation, especially for hierarchical object structures and dependencies.
  • abstraction of requirements; this allows developers to specify dependencies at run time or in configuration and simplify management of crosscutting concerns.
  • increased flexibility by deferring component configuration to the container.
  
  Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the Microsoft .NET Framework for building and delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive application for the Web. Silverlight has some differences from the desktop CLR.
  
  This release includes adjustments to the capabilities and packaging of the Unity container.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	Size
Unity Application Block 1.2 for Silverlight.msi SHA1: 316185b6af0b76b41049f9581229d9d93a8e9fa2	4.75 MB

• • Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 including the Visual Web Developer feature or Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1
  • Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 SDK. This is included with Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1.

• To use the Unity for Silverlight assembly in your Silverlight project, reference Microsoft.Practices.Unity.dll from your Silverlight project. Microsoft Visual Studio will package it into your XAP file for deployment.