Autofac.Extras.CommonServiceLocator doesn't work with Autofac 4.3.0+

Hi, Team.

Wonder if this is a known issue or not. I’m using Autofac.Extras.CommonServiceLocator 4.0.0 at my project. If I upgrade the Autofac version higher than 4.2.1, it throws an exception (xxxx masking intended):

Exception while executing function: xxxx. mscorlib: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. xxxx: The type initializer for 'xxxx' threw an exception. xxxx: Method not found: 'Void Autofac.Extras.CommonServiceLocator.AutofacServiceLocator..ctor(Autofac.IComponentContext)'.

I tried 4.3.0, 4.4.0, 4.5.0 and 4.6.0 but all threw the same exception. Therefore I have to stay on 4.2.1 until this is fixed. Could you please let me know a workaround? I suspect that Autofac.Extras.CommonServiceLocator hasn’t been updated for about a year, which resulted in failing to support .NET Standard.

Cheers,

[tillig]

Unfortunately I don’t really have time to offer deep individualized help like that. Without even looking, though, I can tell you the replacement will be one of these:

• Use Autofac directly rather than the CSL wrapper.
• Replace CSL with Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection and Autofac.Extensions.DependencyInjection.
• Roll your own CSL and adapt Autofac to that.
• Use the unofficial fork of CSL that supports .NET Core and adapt Autofac to that.
• Stop using service location to avoid the issue altogether.

You’ll have to choose the best option for you.

You might also see if you can submit a PR to CSL but if they’re not maintaining it anymore that may be hard.

[tillig]

Oh, yeah, sorry for confusion. On mobile over the long holiday weekend here in the US. When I was asking for a repro I meant “a small, very simple reproduction showing a project where NuGet allowed you to somehow add the packages in the unsupported configuration” rather than “link to a repo full of projects to navigate through.” Apologies for the confusion, but glad I could help. Good luck!