castle windsor doesn't inject dependency into properties

Question

i have asp.net mvc application i have created a custom membership provider he is bound in web.config like this:

<membership defaultProvider="MyMembershipProvider"> <providers> <clear/> <add name="MyMembershipProvider" type="MyProject.Infrastructure.Security.MyMembershipProvider" />
</providers> </membership>

i use windsor castle for IoC

usually i use the contructor injection something like : SomeController(ISomething something) { something.do() ... }

but i can not use this for the custom membership class because i get a error from web.config that i don't have a parameterless constructor, and if i would the object wouldn't be initialized

so i used property injection like so:

<castle> <components> <component id="usersRepos" service="MyProject.Core.Repositories.IUserRepository, MyProject.Core" type="MyProject.Data.RepositoryImplementations, MyProject.Data">
</component> ...

public class MyMembershipProvider : MembershipProvider { public IUserRepository UserRepository{get; set;}

    public override bool ValidateUser(string username, string password)
    {            
        if (UserRepository.UserExists(username, password))
        {
            return true;
        }

        return false;
    }

...

and i get object reference not found exception because the object (UserRepository) has not been initialized

Answer 1

Membership providers can't be managed by Windsor (or at least it seems that nobody bothered to find out how to do it) so they will never get anything injected. See this for a workaround.