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Castle is an open source project for .net that aspires to simplify the development of enterprise and web applications. Offering a set of tools (working together or independently) and integration with others open source projects, Castle helps you get more done with less code and in less time.

News & Events

• December 15th, 2011: Krzysztof Kozmic announced the release of Windsor and Core 3.0.
• November 20th, 2011: Krzysztof Kozmic announced the release of Windsor and Core 3.0 (RC 1).
• October 1st, 2011: Krzysztof Kozmic announced the release of Windsor 2.5.4 This is a purely bugfix release.
• August 15th, 2011: Krzysztof Kozmic announced the release of Windsor and Core 3.0 (beta 1).
• March 17th, 2011: Henry Conceicao announced the release of MonoRail 2.1 RC.
• March 15th, 2011: Henry Conceicao announced the release of ActiveRecord Integration 1.1.2 RC.
• March 14th, 2011: Henry Conceicao announced the release of Castle ActiveRecord 3.0 RC.
• March 14th, 2011: Henry Conceicao announced the release of Castle NHibernate Facility 2.0 RC.
• March 14th, 2011: Henry Conceicao announced the release of Castle Auto Tx Facility 2.5.1.
• February 2nd, 2011: Krzysztof Kozmic announced the release of Castle Windsor 2.5.3. This is a bugfix release.
• December 20th, 2010: Henry Conceicao announced the release of Castle MonoRail 2.1 Beta.
• December 10th, 2010: Henry Conceicao announced the release of Castle ActiveRecord 3.0 Beta.
• December 10th, 2010: Henry Conceicao announced the release of Castle Transaction Service and Castle Auto Tx Facility 2.5.0.
• December 10th, 2010: Henry Conceicao announced the release of Castle Template Engine 1.1.2 and Castle NVelocity 1.1.1.
• December 10th, 2010: Henry Conceicao announced the release of Castle Pagination 1.1.1, Castle Binder 2.5.0 and Castle Validator 2.5.0.
• November 15th, 2010: Krzysztof Kozmic announced the release of Castle Windsor 2.5.2 and Castle Core 2.5.2 (which contains DynamicProxy and Dictionary Adapter).
• November 8th, 2010: New logos for Castle project and four major elements of Castle stack were unveiled. The logos were created by Agnieszka Kozmic.
• September 21st, 2010: Krzysztof Kozmic announced the release of Castle Windsor 2.5.1 and Castle Core 2.5.1 (which contains DynamicProxy and Dictionary Adapter).
• August 21st, 2010: Krzysztof Kozmic announced the release of Castle Windsor 2.5 and Castle Core 2.5 (which contains DynamicProxy and Dictionary Adapter) (see announcement for beta 1 here and beta 2 here).
• May 18th, 2010: John Simons announced the release of Castle Scheduler 1.0.

MonoRail is a MVC framework inspired by ActionPack, a paradigm shift to simplicity.

The enterprise data mapping pattern implemented using NHibernate.

Best of breed, mature Inversion of Control container available for .NET and Silverlight.

Castle Components is a set of simple, general purpose and reusable components.

Castle Services abstract and define contracts for common enterprise application needs.