Best place to init / dispose WindsorContainer in global.asax?

[Scott_M]

We are currently using windsor in our MVC 3 web app.  We currently initialize the WindsorContainer via a static constructor in global.asax to resolve global Logging components and Windows Identity Foundation components.  This seems to work well but I realized that we never dispose of the container.  This seems like a possible anti pattern.  What are the best places to instantiate / dispose the Windsor container in global.asax?

thanks

[Mauricio Scheffer]

Application_Start and Application_End respectively. See  http://docs.castleproject.org/Windsor.Windsor-tutorial-part-four-putting-it-all-together.ashx  for reference.

Cheers,

Mauricio

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Scott_M <scott.kenda...@gmail.com> wrote:

We are currently using windsor in our MVC 3 web app.  We currently initialize the WindsorContainer via a static constructor in global.asax to resolve global Logging components and Windows Identity Foundation components.  This seems to work well but I realized that we never dispose of the container.  This seems like a possible anti pattern.  What are the best places to instantiate / dispose the Windsor container in global.asax?

thanks

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[Scott McFadden]

I noticed in the windsor tutorial that Application_Start is an instance method that is setting static IWindsorContainer container. I typically see static methods initializing static variables. Is it safe for an instance method (Application_Start) to initialize a static variable (IWindsorContainer container)?

Thanks for the help Mauricio.  

[Mauricio Scheffer]

Yes, it's safe. See  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2776233/does-application-start-block-all-incoming-requests  for further explanation and reference.

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Mauricio