Jonathon Rossi over in Brisbane has been hard at work on the CVSI project (Castle Visual Studio Integration) and has released version 0.3 which now supports VS 2008 - for those not in the know CVSI provides nvelocity intellisense when writing views for monorail.

I did some testing of some earlier releases last week and it's looking good, hilights include:

• New installer which supports 2005 and 2008.
• Basic XHTML intelisense.

It also includes some fixes which means the intelisense now works when the templates are not in a web application project (useful for those of us writing applications where we have pluggable modules) and fixes for multi-level inheritence, so helpers and view components with multiple levels of base class i.e. FormHelper (which now inherits from AbstractFormRelatedHelper) will be included in the list of classes, something which bugged me with earlier releases on 2005.

Great work Jono!

Wasted 5 minutes figuring out what was going wrong, maybe this will save someone else the effort!

When using RhinoCommons and CastleProject both from trunk there's a version conflict with NHibernate.

RhinoCommons has NHibernate Version 2.0.0.1001 (Including support for things like Multi-criteria) ... and then the Castle Project is using NHibernate Version (1.2.0.4000) - this took me a little bit by surprise when I discovered that a monorail project I had was failing when attempting to databind properly when using the ARSmartDispatcherController... because I wasn't checking the binding errors collection, this was just failing silently... so a save would just load/save the existing record, without any binding.

Quick fix is just to use a assembly binding redirect in the web.config: