As the discussion on the altdotnet list continued ( some of it around my blog yesterday ), it became apparent that some people didn't want to use an IoC container - but more confusing was that their objection to the whole pattern was that they thought the IoC container in here meant I was writing...
A discussion on the altdotnet list just came up around logging. After some various suggestions, I asked what was wrong with using optional dependencies and the built in logging facility in Castle Windsor . It seemed the most obvious answer Of course, I completely forgot that when I first tried to figure...
Oren just posted a link to a presentation that he and Hamilton did at JAOO, explaining Castle ActiveRecord and giving some basic examples of its use within an application, and also touching on some trickier aspects of using an ORM. I cannot recommend this highly enough if you are interested in how an...
Update: This is a repost from my old blog, it seemed to have relevance to the recent TypeMock post . It was written for a previous client to help them understand why I was fighting to get Castle Windsor used in their code base. The Problem We currently develop software in a fairly piecemeal and disjointed...
Update: Re-published from old blog I've done it before, but my mind went totally blank yesterday ... due to some typically quick responses from the Castle Users Google Group ... here is the code to do it for future generations to avoid my same silly mistakes ... 1: WindsorContainer container = new...