Castle Windsor

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

Releases

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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.