Dependency Injection (DI) helps to enable Inversion of Control (IoC), but DI itself is not IoC because truly moving the locus of control outward requires an architecture that wraps and invokes the DI. An example of this would be ASP.NET MVC which uses DI to instantiate the controllers and other objects needed to process web requests. That is IoC, but the libraries that implement DI (“containers”) are not themselves IoC containers they are DI containers. Calling them IoC containers is inaccurate.
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