Right now I'm trying to teach myself the Dependency Injection pattern with the IOC-container from Autofac. I've come up with a very simple example, which is presented below. Although the example is simple, I fail to get it working properly.

Here are my classes/interfaces:

Two monsters, both implementing the IMonster interface:

interface IMonster
{
  void IntroduceYourself();
}

class Vampire : IMonster
{
  public delegate Vampire Factory(int age);

  int mAge; 

  public Vampire(int age)
  {
    mAge = age;
  }

  public void IntroduceYourself()
  {
    Console.WriteLine("Hi, I'm a " + mAge + " years old vampire!");
  }
}

class Zombie : IMonster
{
  public delegate Zombie Factory(string name);

  string mName;

  public Zombie(string name)
  {
    mName = name;
  }

  public void IntroduceYourself()
  {
    Console.WriteLine("Hi, I'm " + mName + " the zombie!");
  }
}

Then there's my graveyard:

interface ILocation
{
  void PresentLocalCreeps();
}

class Graveyard : ILocation
{
  Func<int, IMonster>    mVampireFactory;
  Func<string, IMonster> mZombieFactory;

  public Graveyard(Func<int, IMonster> vampireFactory, Func<string, IMonster> zombieFactory)
  {
    mVampireFactory = vampireFactory;
    mZombieFactory  = zombieFactory;
  }

  public void PresentLocalCreeps()
  {
    var vampire = mVampireFactory.Invoke(300);
    vampire.IntroduceYourself();

    var zombie = mZombieFactory.Invoke("Rob");
    zombie.IntroduceYourself();
  }
}

And finally my main:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
  // Setup Autofac
  var builder = new ContainerBuilder();
  builder.RegisterType<Graveyard>().As<ILocation>();
  builder.RegisterType<Vampire>().As<IMonster>();
  builder.RegisterType<Zombie>().As<IMonster>();
  var container = builder.Build();

  // It's midnight!
  var location = container.Resolve<ILocation>();
 
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