Setting up Castle Windsor IOC for web applications

I recently wrote a post about how to set up CW’s IOC container for applications. This post covered the most basic implementation to get an IOC container up and running. It is now time to cover a proper architecture for using IOC specifically for web applications / sites. The main problem with the previous implementation [...]

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Testing MS asp.net code behind

Testing Microsoft’s web forms (asp.net) UI. Microsoft’s web form architecture is not particularly good for testing. The event driven architecture of ‘code behind’ means lots of logic gets stored in C# code that is tightly bound to the HTML code. This means you can’t write purely C# unit tests for it. The best solution is [...]

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Setting up the Castle Windsor IOC framework for basic dependency injection

Using an Inversion of Control (IOC) framework such as Castle Windsor is very easy. Here I will show how to set up a very basic dependency injection using an external configuration file. The architecture in this example is a basic repository pattern allowing the (in this case the database) repository to be loosely coupled from [...]

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Finding the repository with dependency injection

One thing I noticed, when using dependency injection was that the calling class, i.e the one that instantiates the container to do the injection wont be able to find the repository unless part of your code calls into the assembly it resides in. If you have a) Assembly for domain b) Assembly for DAL c) [...]

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