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?
Best Answer
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.