So welcome to part 2, today we're going to look at some more config - this time it's arrays...



So we have a class, that tells us when we can down tools and go to the beach...

public class HolidayService

{

    private DateTime[] _holidays;
    public DateTime[] Holidays

    {

        get

        {

            return _holidays;

        }

        set { _holidays = value; }

    }
    public bool IsHoliday(DateTime date)

    {

        if (_holidays != null)

        {

            DateTime matchDate = date.Date;

            foreach (DateTime test in Holidays)

            {

                if (test.Date.Equals(matchDate))

                {

                    return true;

                }

            }

        }
        return false;

    }

}

We can set the days we are allowed off by adding dates to the holidays array...



So lets look at our code for running this service:

internal class Program

{

    private static void Main(string[] args)

    {

        WindsorContainer container = new WindsorContainer(new XmlInterpreter());
        HolidayService holidayService = container.Resolve();
        DateTime xmas = new DateTime(2007, 12, 25);

        DateTime newYears = new DateTime(2008, 1, 1);
        if (holidayService.IsHoliday(xmas))

            Console.WriteLine("merry xmas!");

        else

            Console.WriteLine("xmas is only for management!");
        if (holidayService.IsHoliday(newYears))

            Console.WriteLine("happy new year");

        else

            Console.WriteLine("new year, you haven't done all the work for last year!");
        Console.Read();

    }

}

The service configuration is just like last time, we have the component registered with no parameters... so if we run the program we shall see on the screen:



xmas is only for management!

new year, you haven't done all the work for last year!


Mum will be dissapointed, she'd done a roast 'n all... so lets get some configuration in their so we can have a few days off...

  


        type="Castle.Windsor.Configuration.AppDomain.CastleSectionHandler, Castle.Windsor" />

  
  

    

      

          

            

              2007-12-24

              2007-12-25

              2008-1-1

            

          

        

      

    

  

Now let's see if we're going to have a merry xmas and a happy new year - a quick run of our application....



merry xmas!

happy new year



You don't just have to use arrays either, you can do lists too - though I didn't show them here, just use list instead of array in the xml configuration...


See you for part 3 where we do dictionary configurations.