How can I register a Wcf Service contract without knowing the implementation

Question

Without Castle Windsor I would write:

var channelFactory = new ChannelFactory<ICredentialService>("Default"); 
ICredentialService credentialService = channelFactory.CreateChannel(); 

How can I register a Wcf Service contract with the Castle Windsor API?

Answer 1

Add the Castle Windsor WCF integration facility Nuget package to your project

Add the WcfFacility to your container:

container.AddFacility<WcfFacility>();

Then, tell the container to provide a WCF client when you have a dependency on your service interface:

container.Register(
    Component.For<ICredentialService>()
        .AsWcfClient(WcfEndpoint.FromEndpoint("EndpointName")));

It will then use the named endpoint in your .config to retrieve the settings for the endpoint.

Whenever a class resolved from the container has a constructor dependency on ICredentialService the container will inject a WCF client.