castle-windsor Installers Basics - Creating and using an Installer

Example

Installers are custom types that implement the IWindsorInstaller interface and are used to register Components to the container, using the fluent registration API.

public class MyInstaller : IWindsorInstaller
{
    public void Install(IWindsorContainer container, IConfigurationStore store)
    {
        container.Register(Component.For<IMyType>()
                                    .ImplementedBy<ConcreteMyType1>());

        //Registering several components in one call to .Register
        container.Register(
            Component.For<IFoo>().ImplementedBy<Foo>(),
            Component.For<IBar>().ImplementedBy<Bar());
    }
}

//To use the installer:
WindsorContainer container = new WindsorContainer();
container.Install(new MyInstaller());

container.Resolve<IFoo>();

Keep in mind

Installers must have public default constructor: When installers are instantiated by Windsor, they must have public default constructor. Otherwise an exception will be thrown.