Castle Windsor Simple Tutorial

Inversion of Control using Castle Windsor

1. Download Castle Windsor here

2. Add the following Libraries to your Project reference

 Castle.Core.dll

 Castle.DynamicProxy2.dll

 Castle.MicroKernel.dll

 Castle.Windsor.dll

3. Add the following to your Web Config

  <configSections>

    <section  name="castle"

             type="Castle.Windsor.Configuration.AppDomain.CastleSectionHandler, Castle.Windsor"/>

  </configSections>

 

  <castle>

    <components>

      <component id="castleTest"

                 service="MyAssembly.ICastleTest, MyAssembly"

                 type="MyAssembly.CastleTest, MyAssembly"/>

    </components>

  </castle>

4. Code implementation

public class CastleTest : ICastleTest

{

    #region ICastleTest Members

 

    public string HelloWorld(string text)

    {

        return "my test is " + text;

    }

 

    #endregion

}

 

public interface ICastleTest

{

    string HelloWorld(string text);

}

5. In your controller

    public ActionResult About()

    {

        WindsorContainer container = new WindsorContainer(new XmlInterpreter());

        ICastleTest service = container.Resolve<ICastleTest>("castleTest");

 

        ViewData["castleTest"] = service.HelloWorld("hello world");

 

        return View();

    }