To help debug when config didn't load. Motivated by user reports similar to http://unity.codeplex.com/workitem/9223

Add a graphical config tool for Unity like it already exists for the other app blocks

To make container setup easier an less verbose add support for registration by conventions and a real DSL

Unity lacks real documentation of all the moving parts that are hidden under the hood (strategies, policies ...) and how they interact

Enable async logging. This is particulalry useful when logging via database tracelistener. It's typically slow, a lot of inserts... hence asynchrony is desirable.

TearDown does not do anything with the LifetimeManagers supplied ootb. It should properly dispose object(graph)s created by the container

I'm following the Microsoft Yellow Brick Road and jumping on the Metro Band Wagon and expect that it will take time for tools to catch up (as it did when WPF emerged). However, I feel crippled without IOC / Unity (and Prism) - would be nice to have a Metro IOC package, supported by Microsoft, available!

For details see
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4153565/synchronizationlockexception-logging

Allow ValidatorFactory to create a validator of more than one specified rule set or allow validator to validate based on more than one specified rule set...

Castle Windsor Facilities equivalent

As a developer I want to be able to leverage a ClaimsPrincipal for the authorization checks using the Security Application Block. The claims that are recognized as identity or roles should tie into the authorization providers (AuthorizationRuleProvider and AzManAuthorizationProvider). Currently the AzMan provider seems dependent on Windows identities.

I would like to extract alias definitions to a centralized config file and reference this from the master app config. See:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7848139/is-it-possible-to-move-the-container-alias-definitions-into-a-separate-file

I would like to log the ActivityId field of the LogEntry class to the database when using a DatabaseTraceListener. ActivityId is not currently one of the values logged to the Log table.

Exposing a unity-managed object with wcf through a svc file is a common scenario. It would be great if Unity could provide a wcf factory out of the box, so it would be possible to use it directly instead of writing our own (many examples on the web).

One of the things I like most about Unity, is that Unity can build object trees, even if not all types used in the object tree are explicitly registered.
However, if I want to use a custom default LifetimeManager, I do have to register all types with the custom LifetimeManager, because Unity does not support a custom default LifetimeManager.
So, the request is simple: make the default LifetimeManager type configurable.

E.g.:
var container = new UnityContainer();
container.ChangeDefaultLifetimeManagerTo<ContainerControlledLifetimeManager>();

And then resolve all these instances by ResolveAll

it would be great to register nested objects instead of using dendencyName. This way the xml, will reflect the object tree visually.