This is the second post of a serie started with this post about a MonoRail and ActiveRecord tutorial.
Let’s start developing our sample application. The first thing we need to do is to create a .NET project configured for using the CastleProject stuff. You can go in two ways:
- Create a Visual Studio project with the MonoRail project wizard.
The wizard will create for you the MonoRail project structure, generate the configuration elements in the web.config file and add all the necessary references to the project.
You will be prompted to choose a view engine (NVelocity, Brail or ASP .Net Web Forms), if to enable the Windsor inversion of control, and if you wish to create a test project for TDD (Test Driven Development).
For the purpose of this tutorial choose NVelocity, not enable Windsor and create the TDD test project. You can look at the procedure here. - If you are using another IDE than Visual Studio, or if you want to manually configure the environment, you can look at the manual procedure in the same link of the first point.
The references that will be added are:
- Castle.MonoRail.Framework.dll: The MonoRail framework, that implements for the project the MVC Pattern
- Castle.MonoRail.Framework.Views.NVelocity.dll: The view engine we have chosen
- Castle.Components.Binder.dll: The binder implementation
- Castle.Components.Common.EmailSender.dll: The email service contracts
- Castle.Components.Common.EmailSender.SmtpEmailSender.dll: The email service implementation
- Castle.Core.dll: Core functionalities shared by Castle Projects
- NVelocity.dll: The template engine
