Re: Dynamic Proxy - Silverlight Build

> The current silverlight projects are incorrect. I tried to build a
> silverlight version of Windsor and DP just last week, and hit a large wall
> and decided to give up.
>
>
>
> The main issues were:
>
>
>
> 1)      I found that the *.Silverlight.csproj files are still referencing
> System.dll, System.Core.dll, and mscorelib.dll from the .NET framework path.
> These should be linking to those in the silverlight SDK folder (something
> line C:\program files\microsoft sdks\silverlight\2.0…)
>
> 2)      After fixing (1) I found some issues with classes that didn’t make
> it into silverlight 2.0 ( mainly the HybridDictionary). See the Silverlight
> 2.0 documentation for the System.Collections.Specialized namespace, only a
> few interfaces made it.
>
>
>
> I looks like the best solution to make Castle.Core, Castle.MicroKernal, and
> Castle.Windsor source compatible with Silverlight 2.0 is to swap
>
> HybridDictionary(true)
>
> For
>
>                 Dictionary<string,
> object>(StringComparrison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
>
>
>
> Or specific types, like in AbstractHandler.cs
>
>                 Dictionary<string,
> DependencyModel>(StringComparrison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
>
>
>
> Since Dictionary<K,V> implements IDictionary, I found that this didn’t break
> the interfaces, and therefore is largely backwards compatible.
>
>
>
> Also I found a combination of dictionaries where some ignore case, and some
> don’t.
>
>
>
> After finding out the level of required change to make it compile for
> silverlight I gave up, and resorted to using the silverlight build of unity.
> I don’t know if there are other Classes that are being used in the .NET
> Framework that are not in Silverlight other than the HybridDictionary, but
> it wont take long to find out.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter Davis
> Software Engineer, EW Operational Support Group
> BAE Systems Australia
> Phone +61 8 8480 7266
>
> If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the
> process of putting them in.
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: castle-project-devel@...
> [mailto:castle-project-devel@...] On Behalf Of Jonathon Rossi
> Sent: Monday, 15 June 2009 9:54 AM
> To: castle-project-devel@...
> Subject: Re: Dynamic Proxy - Silverlight Build
>
>
>
> There are many unit tests that aren't successful on silverlight. It would be
> really helpful if we can get these fixed in both Castle Core and DP2.
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Mark <markspambuster@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks Jono,
>
> Anything I can do to help?
>
> On Jun 15, 12:10 pm, Jonathon Rossi <j...@...> wrote:
>> There is plans to set up a Silverlight build on TeamCity, however last
>> time
>> I had an attempt at getting it all building with Silverlight I had a lot
>> of
>> trouble with unit tests. I still have my working copy from then so I'm
>> planning to just get it building and worry about getting the tests running
>> later.
>>
>> We haven't yet had an official Silverlight supported release and I'm not
>> aware of any committers that are pushing to keep it up to date, but a CI
>> build will ensure that happens. However, we do want to support it for our
>> users for thanks for the patch.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Mark <markspambus...@...> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>>
>> > I've just signed up and don't know much about how everything works so
>> > be gentle ;-).
>>
>> > I have used RhinoMocks for quite a while and now I've started using it
>> > with Silverlight. RhinoMocks uses Dynamic Proxy and the other day I
>> > found a bug which I raised and was fixed almost immediately (awsome!).
>>
>> > However, it appears that the Silverlight version isn't being built
>> > automatically and when I got the source and tried to build it took a
>> > bit of rearranging for the code to compile and so I'm a little worried
>> > that I may have broken something in the process (link to patch below).
>>
>> > So my questions are:
>> > Is the Silverlight version being actively "developed" (well, actively
>> > kept in synch with main code base)?
>> > Is there a build for the Silverlight version? If not can we get one?
>>
>> > I don't have any "spare" time but could probably convince my boss that
>> > an hour or 2 getting this in place will be worth it for us in the long
>> > run (and hopefully there wouldn't be too much time to keep t
>> > going...?).
>>
>> > And finally a general "you guys are awesome" for the libraries you
>> > produce - Thanks!
>>
>> > Thanks
>>
>> > Mark
>>
>> > The patch I produced is here:
>> >http://www.walkersretreat.co.nz/files/DYNPROX-92-Silverlight.zip
>>
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> Jono
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