Castle Scoped Lifestyle not working

Question

Trying to find the real cause of this and not having much fun!

Type is not resolved for member 'Castle.MicroKernel.Lifestyle.Scoped.CallContextLifetimeScope+SerializationReference,Castle.Windsor, Version=3.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=407dd0808d44fbdc'. 

This looks like a bug considering I have nothing register with the container using this lifestyle.

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you are trying to do, but if your goal is implementing an IDependencyResolver (which looks like it since you are using scopes):

If you are implementing an IDependencyResolver, don't try to be clever and inherit from your IDependencyScope implementation. Create the Resolver from scratch. This is how I implemented my dependency resolver (which works):

public class WindsorDependencyResolver : IDependencyResolver {
    private readonly IWindsorContainer _container;

    public WindsorDependencyResolver(IWindsorContainer container)
    {
        _container = container;
    }

    public IDependencyScope BeginScope()
    {
        return new WindsorDependencyScope(_container);
    }

    public object GetService(Type serviceType)
    {
        return _container.Kernel.HasComponent(serviceType)
                   ? _container.Resolve(serviceType)
                   : null;
    }

    public IEnumerable<object> GetServices(Type serviceType)
    {
        return _container.ResolveAll(serviceType).Cast<object>();
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {
    }
}

public class WindsorDependencyScope : IDependencyScope {
    private readonly IWindsorContainer _container;
    private readonly IDisposable _scope;
    private bool _disposed;

    public WindsorDependencyScope(IWindsorContainer container)
    {
        _container = container;
        _scope = _container.BeginScope();
    }

    public object GetService(Type serviceType)
    {
        EnsureNotDisposed();
        return _container.Kernel.HasComponent(serviceType)
                   ? _container.Kernel.Resolve(serviceType)
                   : null;
    }

    public IEnumerable<object> GetServices(Type serviceType)
    {
        EnsureNotDisposed();
        return _container.ResolveAll(serviceType).Cast<object>();
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {
        if(_disposed) return;

        _scope.Dispose();
        _disposed = true;
        GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
    }

    private void EnsureNotDisposed()
    {
        if(_disposed) throw new ObjectDisposedException("WindsorDependencyScope");
    }
}

And this was my first attempt (which produced your error):

public class WindsorDependencyResolver : WindsorDependencyScope, IDependencyResolver {
    private readonly IWindsorContainer _container;

    public WindsorDependencyResolver(IWindsorContainer container)
        : base(container)
    {
        _container = container;
    }

    public IDependencyScope BeginScope()
    {
        return new WindsorDependencyScope(_container);
    }
}

Answer 2

Faced same issue while doing MSTest. Adding Castle.Windsor.dll to GAC worked for me.

gacutil.exe /if "C:\Castle.Windsor.3.1.0\lib\net40\Castle.Windsor.dll"