One of the most frequent StackOverflow questions we see for Autofac involves some confusion over how to deal with components in applications like MVC and Web API that support per-request dependencies.

To help folks out, I wrote up a fairly comprehensive document on the Autofac doc site addressing the various questions around per-request dependencies.

We’re still working on porting over the wiki content into the doc site. While that is going on, things are a little “split” between the two sites. If the content is on the doc site, go for that over the wiki. The doc site has content that’s a little more robust and detailed than the wiki had (which is part of the desire to move to the doc site).