Ok, this is just a cool little feature I found in Ninject today and I am 100% sure I may be the last person on the planet to find this but who cares.

today as I was trying to get IoC implemented in our application at work I ran across the need to bind a type to an existing singleton in our application.  The reason for this need is 2 fold:

1. I am not willing to take on the risk at this point of changing the ENTIRE application to utilize IoC
2. This is our RIA services domain context and I do not have enough knowledge in RIA services to know a better way to do this

So how do you bind a type to an existing method (or property)?

1. Make sure that you have the general convention based bindings setup correctly within Ninject.
2. Rebind your time and point it to the method you want to use

To Rebind you simply should do

ninjectKernel.Rebind<DomainContext>().ToMethod(x => MyClass.DomainContext); 

In the above code what we are doing is Rebinding the DomainContext type to the Method on the MyClass instance.  This will notify Ninject to not try to create a new instance of DomainContext but rather it will invoke the method, or in my case property, on my class.

I just thought this was kinda cool and wanted to share.

Till next time,