Castle Windsor

Castle Windsor is a best of breed, mature Inversion of Control container available for .NET.

See the documentation.

Releases

See the releases.

License

Castle Windsor is © 2004-2020 Castle Project. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license.

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Conditional Compilation Symbols

The following conditional compilation symbols are currently defined for Windsor:

Symbol	.NET 4.5	.NET Standard
CASTLE_SERVICES_LOGGING	✅	🚫
FEATURE_APPDOMAIN	✅	🚫
FEATURE_ASSEMBLIES	✅	🚫
FEATURE_EVENTLOG	✅	🚫
FEATURE_GAC	✅	🚫
FEATURE_GETCALLINGASSEMBLY	✅	🚫
FEATURE_ISUPPORTINITIALIZE	✅	🚫
FEATURE_NETCORE_REFLECTION_API	🚫	✅
FEATURE_PERFCOUNTERS	✅	🚫
FEATURE_REMOTING	✅	🚫
FEATURE_SECURITY_PERMISSIONS	✅	🚫
FEATURE_SERIALIZATION	✅	🚫
FEATURE_SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION	✅	🚫
FEATURE_URIMEMBERS	✅	🚫

• CASTLE_SERVICES_LOGGING - enables access to Castle.Services.Logging.log4netIntegration and Castle.Services.Logging.NLogIntegration in the logging facility.
• FEATURE_APPDOMAIN - enables support for features that make use of an AppDomain in the host.
• FEATURE_ASSEMBLIES - uses AssemblyName.GetAssemblyName() and Assembly.LoadFile().
• FEATURE_EVENTLOG - uses Castle Core APIs that are based on the Windows Event Log.
• FEATURE_GAC - enables support for obtaining assemblies using an assembly's long form name.
• FEATURE_GETCALLINGASSEMBLY - enables code that uses System.Reflection.Assembly.GetCallingAssembly().
• FEATURE_ISUPPORTINITIALIZE - enables support for features that make use of System.ComponentModel.ISupportInitialize.
• FEATURE_NETCORE_REFLECTION_API - provides shims to implement missing functionality in .NET Core that have no alternatives.
• FEATURE_PERFCOUNTERS - enables code that uses Windows Performance Counters.
• FEATURE_REMOTING - supports remoting on various types including inheriting from MarshalByRefObject.
• FEATURE_SECURITY_PERMISSIONS - enables the use of CAS and Security[Critical|SafeCritical|Transparent].
• FEATURE_SERIALIZATION - enables support for serialization of dynamic proxies and other types.
• FEATURE_SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION - enables features that use System.Configuration and the ConfigurationManager.
• FEATURE_URIMEMBERS - enables code that uses Uri.SchemeDelimiter.

The following conditional compilation symbols are defined for tests only under .NET 4.5:

• FEATURE_CODEDOM - enables code that uses System.CodeDom.
• FEATURE_CONSOLETRACELISTENER - enables code that requires System.Diagnostics.ConsoleTraceListener.
• FEATURE_THREADABORT - enables code that uses Thread.Abort().
• FEATURE_WPF - enables code that uses PresentationCore.dll.
• NUNIT_SETCULTUREATTRIBUTE - uses NUnit.Framework.SetCultureAttribute.
• NUNIT_TIMEOUTATTRIBUTE - uses NUnit.Framework.TimeoutAttribute.