What is Convention-based Registration (Assembly Scanning)?

Updated Apr 28, 2026

Short answer

Convention-based registration automates wiring by scanning compiled assemblies and matching implementations to interfaces based on naming rules.

Deep explanation

Instead of manually writing 500 container.Register() lines, you instruct the container: 'Find all classes ending in Repository, and register them against their matching I[Name]Repository interface'. This scales effortlessly in massive enterprise codebases.

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