castleproject / Windsor

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

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 © 2004-2023 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 4.6.2	.NET Standard / 6
FEATURE_APPDOMAIN	✅	🚫
FEATURE_ASSEMBLIES	✅	🚫
FEATURE_PERFCOUNTERS	✅	🚫
FEATURE_REMOTING	✅	🚫
FEATURE_SECURITY_PERMISSIONS	✅	🚫
FEATURE_SERIALIZATION	✅	🚫
FEATURE_SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION	✅	🚫

• FEATURE_APPDOMAIN - enables support for features that make use of an AppDomain in the host.
• FEATURE_ASSEMBLIES - uses AssemblyName.GetAssemblyName() and Assembly.LoadFile().
• 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.

The following conditional compilation symbols are defined for tests only under .NET 4.6.2:

• 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.