Resolving classes without registering them using Castle Windsor

Question

Take the following useless program:

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        IUnityContainer unityContainer = new UnityContainer();
         


        

Answer 1

Windsor doesn't support that out of the box, but you can create extension methods to do this:

static class WindsorExtensions
{
    public static object ResolveType(this IWindsorContainer container, Type type)
    {
        if ( type.IsClass && !container.Kernel.HasComponent(type) )
            container.Kernel.AddComponent(type.FullName, type, LifestyleType.Transient);
        return container.Resolve(type);
     }

     public static T ResolveType(this IWindsorContainer container)
     { return (T)ResolveType(container, typeof(T)); }
}

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        IUnityContainer unityContainer = new UnityContainer();
        IWindsorContainer windsorContainer = new WindsorContainer();

        Program unityProgram = unityContainer.Resolve();
        Program castleProgram = windsorContainer.ResolveType();
    }
}