Windsor castle policy injection tutorial?

Question

I would like to learn more about Windsor castle but it seems that it is overwhelming me a bit. I found a code sample here: http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2007/03/07/Building-the-Policy-Injection-in-40-Minutes-with-Windsor.aspx. It's interesting indeed but it seems to be using a lot of extra code. I thought the power for policy injection was just that I could make some configuration file and inject it and have a pre-, post, and interception handler?

Answer 1

I think you misunderstood Ayende's post. Windsor is not the same thing as policy injection application block from Patterns and Practices. This functionality could be implemented in Windsor, as Ayende showed, but that would be far from the main goal of the project.

If you want just simple AOP, check Castle Dynamic Proxy.

If you want to learn more about Windsor, there are plenty of good resources out there.

Some links:

probably the most complete Dynamic Proxy tutorial by yours truly

IMO best Windsor tutorial

Another Windsor tutorial

You may also want to see Steve Bohlen's recording from NotAtPDC about it (not available yet, but should be soon)

And Ayende's very good introductory presentation from NDC conference.