How do I get the current Castle Windsor container?

Question

I am a Castle Winsor Noob. I have a WebForm project that is a hot mess. I am trying to resolve a dependency to test user registration. How do I get to the current Windsor

Answer 1

There is interface in Windsor for this purpose. It is called IContainerAccessor. Best place to implement it is the Global.asax file:

public class WebApplication : HttpApplication, IContainerAccessor {
  static IWindsorContainer container;

  public IWindsorContainer Container {
    get { return container; }
  }

  protected void Application_Start() {
    var bootstrapper = new WindsorConfigTask();
    bootstrapper.Execute();
    container = bootstrapper.Container; 
  }

  protected void Application_End() {
    container.Dispose();
  }
}

The usage in your web form is as following:

var containerAccessor = Context.ApplicationInstance as IContainerAccessor;
var container = containerAccessor.Container;