Refactoring tool for Spring.NET

Question

Currently I get to edit a lot of Spring.NET XML files, and I do find this work to quite repetitive and, frankly boring.

Most of the stuff I do is sort of 'refactoring' - generalising XML declaration for instances and "inheriting" from those generalised structures to declare more specific ones.

As I said, it's a no-brainier type of task but it does require a lot of attention and concentration and it's easy to make a mistake.

I would imagine that a lot of editing of Spring.NET xml files can be automated with a tool similar to ReSharper.

Can you recommend anything?

Answer 1

In the latest spring release (1.3-you can find files for ReSharper to help you with the XML files, though I haven't used them yet.

You might also want to look into Recoil which tries to avoid xml files and allows you to configure a Spring.NET powered application via code.