# Home

**Repository Path**: mirrors_castleproject/Home

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: Home
- **Description**: The starting point to learn about the Castle Project
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-08
- **Last Updated**: 2026-05-23

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## README

# Castle Project

## What is Castle Project?

<img align="right" src="images/castle-logo.png">

**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 other open source projects, **Castle** helps you get more done with less code and in less time.

## Projects

### ActiveRecord

[Castle ActiveRecord](https://github.com/castleproject/ActiveRecord) is the enterprise data mapping pattern implemented using NHibernate.

### MonoRail

[Castle MonoRail](https://github.com/castleproject/MonoRail) is a MVC web framework that lets you rapidly build testable and maintainable applications.

### Windsor

[Castle Windsor](https://github.com/castleproject/Windsor) is best of breed Inversion of Control (or as some like to call it - Dependency Injection) container. As part of the project, there are also [a handful of facilities](https://github.com/castleproject/Windsor/blob/master/docs/facilities.md), which extend Windsor and/or integrate it with other tools.

### DynamicProxy

[Castle DynamicProxy](https://github.com/castleproject/Core) is very fast and lightweight runtime proxy generation framework. It is used by other projects under the Castle umbrella, as well as numerous other projects, like NHibernate, Moq, Rhino Mocks and many others.

### Tools

[Castle Services and Tools](https://github.com/castleproject/Core) help you bootstrap your infrastructure easily.

### Transactions

[Castle Transaction Services and Windsor Automatic Transaction Management Facility](https://github.com/castleproject/Castle.Transactions).

### Deprecated

Over the years the Castle Project has built and supported many projects as well as supported the community by hosting "contrib" projects, all deprecated repositories now live in the [Castle Project Deprecated GitHub organization](https://github.com/castleproject-deprecated)

## Castle is free

All projects of [Castle Project](http://castleproject.org/) are available for free, no strings attached.

## It's open

Better yet - Castle Project is Open Source, under the terms of [Apache License 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html), which means you are free to use it in any closed source, commercial product.

## Fork away

Castle's source code [is available](https://github.com/castleproject). You can look at it, or better yet - fork it, improve, extend, do whatever you like with it. If you want to contribute your changes back to the project read [Castle coding standards](coding-standards.md) and [how to submit a fix to any Castle Project](how-to-submit-a-fix.md).

## It's community driven

Castle has a vibrant community of users that contribute back to the project by:

* [![Join the chat at https://gitter.im/castleproject/all](https://badges.gitter.im/castleproject/all.svg)](https://gitter.im/castleproject/all?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge)
* [Answering questions](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=castle+or+castle-windsor+or+castle-activerecord+or+castle-dynamicproxy+or+castle-monorail&amp;sort=newest)
* [Suggesting features](http://castle.uservoice.com/)
* [Discussing its future directions](http://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-devel)
* [Contributing patches](how-to-submit-a-fix.md)