Question

I know how to tell Castle Windsor to resolve a reference from a factory’s method using XML, but can I do it programmatically via the Container.AddComponent() interface? If not is there any other way to do it from code?

EDIT: There seems to be some confusion so let me clarify, I am looking for a way to do the following in code:

<facilities>    <facility         id='factory.support'         type='Castle.Facilities.FactorySupport.FactorySupportFacility, Castle.MicroKernel'     />  </facilities>  <components>      <component         id='CustomerRepositoryFactory'         type='ConsoleApplication2.CustomerRepositoryFactory, ConsoleApplication2'     />      <component         id='CustomerRepository'         service='ConsoleApplication2.ICustomerRepository, ConsoleApplication2'         type='ConsoleApplication2.CustomerRepository, ConsoleApplication2'         factoryId='CustomerRepositoryFactory'         factoryCreate='Create'     />  </components> 

(from this codebetter article on factory support in windsor and spring.net)

Answer 1

Directly from the Unit Test FactorySupportTestCase (which are your friends):

[Test]     public void FactorySupport_UsingProxiedFactory_WorksFine()     {         container.AddFacility('factories', new FactorySupportFacility());         container.AddComponent('standard.interceptor', typeof(StandardInterceptor));         container.AddComponent('factory', typeof(CalulcatorFactory));          AddComponent('calculator', typeof(ICalcService), typeof(CalculatorService), 'Create');          ICalcService service = (ICalcService) container['calculator'];          Assert.IsNotNull(service);     }      private void AddComponent(string key, Type service, Type type, string factoryMethod)     {         MutableConfiguration config = new MutableConfiguration(key);         config.Attributes['factoryId'] = 'factory';         config.Attributes['factoryCreate'] = factoryMethod;         container.Kernel.ConfigurationStore.AddComponentConfiguration(key, config);         container.Kernel.AddComponent(key, service, type);     }