Overview of commonly used public classes / methods

This is a list of public classes and methods in DD4T that are very commonly used in customer implementations.

Class	Method	Rationale	Known customers	Priority	Notes
DD4T.DI.Autofac.Bootstrap	UseDD4T	Set DD4T default wiring	Many	Medium	If we rename this, it must be included in the release notes. Also note that any custom DI implementation also implements a method with the same name and signature.
DD4T.DI.Unity	UseDD4T	Set DD4T default wiring	Some	Medium	See above
DD4T.DI.Ninject	UseDD4T	Set DD4T default wiring	Some	Medium	See above
DD4T ViewModel attributes	See ViewModel Attributes for a complete overview	Support existing customer ViewModel classes	Many	Very high
JMSMessageProvider	Start	Listen to invalidation messages from JMS / NMS	Vasco, Fujitsu	High	Without this, cache invalidation will not be triggered by publishing or unpublishing of an item. Used by Vasco for output caching with triggered invalidation.
UsesTridionPage	DNA	Attribute to add to an action method, it will make the Tridion page for the current URL available	Not sure	Low	Not sure how popular this is
XpmMarkupService	RenderXpmMarkupForField / Component / Page	Implement custom view logic	Vasco	Medium
All factories	All	The DD4T factories are the primary entry point into Tridion content.	All	Very high
ICacheAgent	Store / Load	Whenever you want to cache your own objects.	Many	High

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