What is the meaning of the word ambient in this comment from CommonServiceLocator?
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Solution
Yep, "ambient" is supposed to mean "shared, available to everyone".
If you need a reference from somewhere around the DI, search for the "Ambient Context" pattern, described for example in Mark Seemann's "Dependency Injection in .NET" book.
Problem
I want to guess that "ambient container" has something to do with the fact that it's a static class, but that's just a guess. Or is this referring to a standard pattern? (i.e. I really need to read that GoF book cover to cover) ``` namespace Microsoft.Practices.ServiceLocation { /// <summary> /// This class provides the ambient container for this application. If your /// framework defines such an ambient container, use ServiceLocator.Current /// to get it. /// </summary> public static class ServiceLocator { private static ServiceLocatorProvider currentProvider; /// <summary> /// The current ambient container. /// </summary> public static IServiceLocator Current { get { return currentProvider(); } } /// <summary> /// Set the delegate that is used to retrieve the current container. /// </summary> /// <param name="newProvider">Delegate that, when called, will return /// the current ambient container.</param> public static void SetLocatorProvider(ServiceLocatorProvider newProvider) { currentProvider = newProvider; } } } ```