Patterns & Practices: Composite WPF Contrib

New Post: Unexpected behavior of OutlookBarControl when setting initial state

deblendewim — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:02:38 GMT

Hi all,$0$0$0$0By initial state I mean that none of the views loaded into the OutlookBarControl is selected. $0$0$0$0$0My problem is the following: I want to have an initial state of my OutlookBarControl. All the views should be loaded, and visible as tabs, but none of them may be selected yet. $0$0$0$0$0When I add 1 view to the control without an Activate of the view, then it isn't selected. $0$0$0$0$0(Now it get's weird) When I add a 2nd view to the control without an Activate, then the 1st view is selected. $0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0(A small note: the behavior of the Activate method is working as expected once a view is selected. I just need to know how I can get an initial state where no views are selected.)$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0Any info concerning this topic is welcome!!$0$0Kind regards,$0Wim$0

Updated Wiki: DialogWorkspace

WMeints — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:10:17 GMT

Introduction

The dialog workspace can be used by developers to show any view as a dialog in the application. In this first version the workspace options are limited to a dialog with an Accept and Cancel Button. In future versions these options will be expanded to offer more functionality.

Using the dialog workspace

You only need a small piece of code to show a view as a dialog. The following snippet demonstrates showing a dialog with validation logic.

ISampleView view = _container.Resolve<ISampleView>();
bool? result = DialogWorkspace.ShowView(view,() => 
{
    return true;
});
 
if (result == true)
{
    
}

Updated Wiki: Documentation

WMeints — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:07:26 GMT

Documentation

Updated Wiki: Home

WMeints — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:06:25 GMT

Welcome to the Composite WPF Contrib project

Composite WPF Contrib is a community-developed library of extensions to the patterns & practices Composite WPF project.

If you are building custom tools and extensions and want to share them then Composite WPF Contrib will get it out to the masses.
If you've got a great idea for new extensions Composite WPF contrib is the place to find developers ready, willing, and able to make it happen.
If you use Composite WPF within your org, then Composite WPF Contrib is the place to find tools and extensions to add to your arsenal.
If you want to connect with others who are pushing the bar on Prism development, then Prism Contrib is the place to be.

Prism contrib is about YOU. With your help we can make it a vibrant resource for WPF Composite developers world-wide.

News

(2008-09-05) New Extensions

DialogWorkspace Show any view as a dialog in your application. Sample is included.

(2008-08-11) New Sample

Sample application that demonstrate how to use the Disconnected Service Agent Application Block with CompositeWPF

(2008-07-31) New Extensions

TabGroupPaneRegionAdapter. Infragistics TabGroupPane Region Adapter for CompositeWPF

(2008-07-25) New Extensions

ExtendedModuleLoaderService. Extended module loader service with support to install modules on demand using windows installer

(2008-07-21) New Extensions

OutlookBar. OutlookBar control and region adapter for CompositeWPF

(2008-07-17) New Extensions

Module Status Service. The Module Status Service can be used to retrieve information about what modules are loaded

(2008-07-11) New Extensions

CompositeModuleEnumerator. The CompositeModuleEnumerator makes it possible to combine several module enumerator instances into one module enumerator.
ToolBarPanelRegionAdapter. This adapter adapts control of type System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.ToolBarPanel and derived classes.

(2008-07-08) New Visual Studio Templates. The goal of these templates is to help users start with the Composite WPF project.

What's in Prism Contrib?

PrismAG - Composite WPF for Silverlight
OutlookBar - OutlookBar control and region adapter for CompositeWPF
CompositeModuleEnumerator - Composite Module Enumerator
Module Status Service - A service that can be used to retrieve information about what modules are loaded
Extended Module Service - An extended module loader service with support to install modules on demand using windows installer
Visual Studio Templates
Composite WPF Extensions - Add-on commands, services, regions, etc to aid you in your Composite WPF development
Infragistics Extensions - Infragistics Extensions for CompositeWPF
Samples

See the Documentation index for information on how to use each of these extensions and components.

Contributing to Composite WPF Contrib

Would you like to join as a developer of the Composite WPF Contrib project to share your own extensions or improve the existing codebase? Great! Here is what you need to know

Other p&p Contrib Projects

Source code checked in, #15532

WMeints — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:35:53 GMT

Added new DialogWorkspace component + Sample to test the new functionality

New Post: Silverlight and Unity.Configuration

michaelsync — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:20:53 GMT

Hi Richie,

I have sent the sourcecode of SLUnity.Configuration (+ existing projects) and Sample. Currently, we will need to have a XML file on ASP.NET project and Silverlight project "XMLConfigurationManager" will read that XML and will register or resolve based on XML file.

I believe that people may not like to put those configurations in XML. Instead, I should probably create WCF service that return those configuration in XML formats.Plus, we need to think about security too. But I think https or ASP.NET form-authentication will help.

Please feel free to email me or post here if you have any suggestion or comment.

New Post: Silverlight and Unity.Configuration

RichieScott — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:21:43 GMT

Michael,

That is exactly what I want and I would be very willing to help test any early developments you have.

Cheers
Richie

New Post: Silverlight and Unity.Configuration

michaelsync — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:57:13 GMT

Hello,

This is me again. I wanna update the sample that I posted in previous thread.

The code will be like that. Do you think it's okay for your project?

private void Application_Startup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e) {
XMLConfigurationManager.LoadUnityConfigurationAsync(new Uri("http://localhost:1656/SampleWeb/UnityConfigs.xml"));

XMLConfigurationManager.OnConfigLoaded += new XMLConfigurationManager.XmlConfigHandler(XMLConfigurationManager_OnConfigLoaded);
this.RootVisual = new Page();

}

void XMLConfigurationManager_OnConfigLoaded(object sender, EventArgs e) {
UnityConfigurationSection uConfigSection = XMLConfigurationManager.ConfigurationSection;
IUnityContainer myContainer = new UnityContainer();
uConfigSection.Configure(myContainer);
}

New Post: Silverlight and Unity.Configuration

michaelsync — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:02:58 GMT

Hi,

How would you configure your config file instead of having those hard-codes?

The following should be okay for you??

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
<section name="unity"
            type="Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration.UnityConfigurationSection,
                 Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration, Version=1.1.0.0,
                 Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
</configSections>
<unity>
<containers>
    <container name="containerOne">
    <types>
        <type type="ICustomerView" mapTo="CustomerView" />
        <type type="IFiscalDetailView" mapTo="FiscalDetailView" />
        <type type="ICustomerViewModel" mapTo="CustomerViewModel" />
        <type type="IFiscalDetailViewModel" mapTo="FiscalDetailViewModel" />
    </types>
   </container>
</containers>
</unity>
</configuration>

XMLConfigurationManager.LoadUnityConfiguration(new Uri("UnityConfig.xml"), UriKind.Relative));

IUnityContainer container = new UnityContainer();
UnityConfigurationSection section = XMLConfigurationManager.GetSection("unity");
section.Containers.Default.Configure(container);

If yes, I will try to commit the latest code to SVN this weekend. The code are still under testing..

If no, please let me know how you like to configure in config and how you like to call in code.

New Post: Silverlight and Unity.Configuration

RichieScott — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:20:44 GMT

Nice to hear from you again Michael.

My example is based on the Silverlight-version of CompositeUI incorporating the MVVM pattern. As part of the implementation of the IModule.Initialise I am registering my types as follows:

private IUnityContainer container;

private ICustomerViewModel customerVM;

private IFiscalDetailViewModel fiscalDetailVM;

private void RegisterViewsAndServices()

{

// Setup views

container.RegisterType<ICustomerView, CustomerView>();

container.RegisterType<

IFiscalDetailView, FiscalDetailView>();

// Setup view model

container.RegisterType<ICustomerViewModel, CustomerViewModel>();

container.RegisterType<

IFiscalDetailViewModel, FiscalDetailViewModel>();

// Setup model

container.RegisterType<ICustomerModel, CustomerModel>();

container.RegisterType<

IFiscalDetailModel, FiscalDetailModel>();

// Resolve the view models

customerVM = container.Resolve<ICustomerViewModel>();

// the Customer View Model provides the instance of the Trader Context Service

container.RegisterInstance<ITraderContextService>(customerVM);

fiscalDetailVM = container.Resolve<

IFiscalDetailViewModel>();

}

It would be really good if I didn't have to hard code these registrations but rather place them in the unity section of the config file.
In the ViewModel classes being resolved I am currently using Constructor Injection and by decorating properties with the [Dependency] attrribute (thus the reason for using SLUnity over DILight).

Hope this helps
Richie

New Post: Silverlight and Unity.Configuration

michaelsync — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:14:28 GMT

Hi,

First of all, I'd like to say "Sorry" for not replying your last mail that you sent a couple of weeks ago. (WPF is eating the most of my free time lately :( )

If you like to use IModule, I suggest you to give a try the Silverlight-version of CompositeUI. They called it "Spike". AFAIK, they are using XMLModule loader to load the module dynamically. But I'm not sure whether that XMLModule is shipped it or not. If you like to try Spike, you will need to use SLUnity anyway.

For DILight Vs SLUnity, I highly recommend you to use SLUnity. Since we are already having SLUnity, we don't need to use DILight anymore. AFAIK, we don't have any plan to update DILight in future too.

For SLUnity.Configuration, there is one problem. I want to provide the same feeling of Unity.Configuration while you are using SLUnity.Configuration. But it seems like it's very hard. So, if I'm providing the easiest way then you won't get the same feeling of Unity.Configuration.

What feature do you want from Unity.Configuration and show me the way (e.g. code sample) that you want to use in your project?

You just wanna use like that?

IUnityContainer container = new UnityContainer();
UnityConfigurationSection section
= (UnityConfigurationSection)ConfigurationManager.GetSection("unity");
section.Containers.Default.Configure(container);

OR eventhing that you can use with Unity.Configuration?

IUnityContainer myContainer = new UnityContainer();
myContainer.Configure<InjectedMembers>()
.ConfigureInjectionFor<MyObject>(
new InjectionConstructor(12, "Hello Unity!"),
new InjectionProperty("MyProperty"),
new InjectionProperty("MyStringProperty", "SomeText"),
new InjectionMethod("InitializeMe", 42.0,
new ResolvedParameter(typeof(ILogger), "SpecialLogger"))
);

New Post: Silverlight and Unity.Configuration

RichieScott — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:24:34 GMT

I've got something to work for my situation:

Use a WCF Service to download the configuration for the composite application, i.e. determine what addins are available. The configuration will have the http:// location of the assembly and the name of the class (module) that implememts IModule
Use a WebClient to download the assembly.
Use AssemblyPart.Load(e.Result) to load the assembly
Use Assembly.CreateInstance(...) to create n instance of the class that implements IModule
Execute Initialise(container) on the addin class
The addin is then responsible for its own configuration using the client's container (RegionManagerService etc...)

Having not being party to previous discussions my only concern is I am not using DILight, rather I am using SLUnity should this matter. My reason for using SLUnity is because I need to use property injection rather than constructor injection, that's because the constructor has already been called as part of the CreateInstance.

Based on this solution I can allow addins to be added to my composite application dynamically and by using the client's container they can subscibe to the pre-registered instances of the client's services.

This doesn't solve 'how do I configure the container for the client's implementation?' - for that I still think Unity.Configuration would help.

What do people think? Any comments / concerns, should I be using SLUnity over DILight?

New Post: Silverlight and Unity.Configuration

RichieScott — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:19:44 GMT

Hi,

Firstly, as a newbie to this forum I would just like to say 'Great Work Everybody' - the discussions and source has really helped me understand the opportunites / drawbacks there is when building Composite Silverlight Applications.

My question is 'I was wondering if anyone out there was considering how Unity.Configuration was going to work with Silverlight?'

My scenario is I want 3rd parties to be able to inject their own modules at run-time (i.e. I don't want to have to reference them in my project) into regions I have specifically exposed to them - basically I'm allowing 3rd parties to extend my application.

I had thought of calling a WCF service which 'discovered' the modules on the server using a Configuration File on the server. The service would return a List<IModule> but obviously this would not work because how would the Silverlight Client serialize IModule.

I could let them extend the client directly by adding references and changing code but I don't want them to have to do this everytime I release a new version of the project - i.e. I want my client to be unaware of any 3rd party extensions.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
Richie

Source code checked in, #14588

cpi — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:19:38 GMT

# Fixed issue where the view wasn't removed from the Region when the ContentPane was closed. # Fixed issue where the view wasn't disconnected from the ContentPane when it was removed. # Added 2 new test cases for the mentioned fixes # Refactored TabGroupPaneRegionSyncBehavior nested class to XamDockManagerActiveAwareBehavior public class.

New Post: TabGroupPaneRegionAdapter

cpi — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:08:44 GMT

Hi Matt,

Just to let you know, that I elaborated further my sample and I was able to reproduce your issue.
To solve I will need to extend the TabGroupPaneRegionAdapter behaviors to consider the case when a ContentPane is closed.

I will keep you posted.

Thanks,
Claudio.

Updated Wiki: DSASampleCompositeWPF

mconverti — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:25:07 GMT

Disconnected Service Agent sample with CompositeWPF

All the Offline Blocks (Disconnected Service Agent, Endpoint Catalog and Connection Monitor) shipped with SCSF - May 2007 and higher versions do not have dependencies on CAB/SCSF.
To be able to use those blocks in a Composite WPF application you can do the following:

Add the following configuration to the App.config file to configure the connection monitor and select the data storage that will be consumed by the DSA:

<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="ConnectionMonitor"
             type="Microsoft.Practices.SmartClient.ConnectionMonitor.Configuration.ConnectionSettingsSection, Microsoft.Practices.SmartClient.ConnectionMonitor" />
    <section name="dataConfiguration"
             type="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Data.Configuration.DatabaseSettings, Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Data" />
  </configSections>
  <connectionStrings>
    <add name="QueueDatabase" connectionString="YourConnectionString" providerName="YourProvider" />
  </connectionStrings>
  <ConnectionMonitor>
    <Networks>
      <!-- To check for internet connectivity-->
      <add Name="Internet" Address="http://www.google.com" />
    </Networks>
  </ConnectionMonitor>
  <dataConfiguration defaultDatabase="QueueDatabase">
    <providerMappings>
      <add databaseType="Microsoft.Practices.SmartClient.EnterpriseLibrary.SmartClientDatabase, Microsoft.Practices.SmartClient.EnterpriseLibrary"
           name="System.Data.SqlServerCe" />
    </providerMappings>
  </dataConfiguration>
</configuration>

Set up the Request Manager by overriding the ConfigureContainer method of your application's Bootstrapper class.

protected override void ConfigureContainer()
{
    // Set up request manager.
    RequestManager requestManager = DatabaseRequestManagerIntializer.Initialize();
    requestManager.StartAutomaticDispatch();
 
    // Add the request queue to the Container. This queue will be used by service agents to enqueue requests.
    Container.RegisterInstance<IRequestQueue>(requestManager.RequestQueue, new ContainerControlledLifetimeManager());
 
    // Add the connection monitor to the Container. It will be used to determine connectivity status and provide    // feedback to the user accordingly.
    Container.RegisterInstance<IConnectionMonitor>(requestManager.ConnectionMonitor, new ContainerControlledLifetimeManager());
 
    base.ConfigureContainer();
}

Create an Agent service class that uses the IRequestQueue to define the offline behavior of your web service (in SCSF this is performed by the Create a Disconnected Service Agent recipe).
Register an instance of your Agent class into your container. You can do this in your Module class.

public void Initialize()
{
    RegisterTypesAndServices();
 
    // Add your module views...
}
 
private void RegisterTypesAndServices()
{
    Container.RegisterType<Agent>(new ContainerControlledLifetimeManager());
}

Now you are able to inject your service agent in your classes.

More information on How-to: Use the Disconnected Service Agent (DSA) with CompositeWPF (Prism)

Updated Wiki: DSASampleCompositeWPF

ejadib — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:03:24 GMT

Disconnected Service Agent sample with CompositeWPF

*Coming soon*

More information on How-to: Use the Disconnected Service Agent (DSA) with CompositeWPF (Prism)

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ejadib — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:01:08 GMT

Documentation

Updated Wiki: Home

ejadib — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:58:06 GMT

Welcome to the Composite WPF Contrib project

Composite WPF Contrib is a community-developed library of extensions to the patterns & practices Composite WPF project.

If you are building custom tools and extensions and want to share them then Composite WPF Contrib will get it out to the masses.
If you've got a great idea for new extensions Composite WPF contrib is the place to find developers ready, willing, and able to make it happen.
If you use Composite WPF within your org, then Composite WPF Contrib is the place to find tools and extensions to add to your arsenal.
If you want to connect with others who are pushing the bar on Prism development, then Prism Contrib is the place to be.

Prism contrib is about YOU. With your help we can make it a vibrant resource for WPF Composite developers world-wide.

News

(2008-08-11) New Sample

Sample application that demonstrate how to use the Disconnected Service Agent Application Block with CompositeWPF

(2008-07-31) New Extensions

TabGroupPaneRegionAdapter. Infragistics TabGroupPane Region Adapter for CompositeWPF

(2008-07-25) New Extensions

ExtendedModuleLoaderService. Extended module loader service with support to install modules on demand using windows installer

(2008-07-21) New Extensions

OutlookBar. OutlookBar control and region adapter for CompositeWPF

(2008-07-17) New Extensions

Module Status Service. The Module Status Service can be used to retrieve information about what modules are loaded

(2008-07-11) New Extensions

CompositeModuleEnumerator. The CompositeModuleEnumerator makes it possible to combine several module enumerator instances into one module enumerator.
ToolBarPanelRegionAdapter. This adapter adapts control of type System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.ToolBarPanel and derived classes.

(2008-07-08) New Visual Studio Templates. The goal of these templates is to help users start with the Composite WPF project.

What's in Prism Contrib?

PrismAG - Composite WPF for Silverlight
OutlookBar - OutlookBar control and region adapter for CompositeWPF
CompositeModuleEnumerator - Composite Module Enumerator
Module Status Service - A service that can be used to retrieve information about what modules are loaded
Extended Module Service - An extended module loader service with support to install modules on demand using windows installer
Visual Studio Templates
Composite WPF Extensions - Add-on commands, services, regions, etc to aid you in your Composite WPF development
Infragistics Extensions - Infragistics Extensions for CompositeWPF
Samples

See the Documentation index for information on how to use each of these extensions and components.

Contributing to Composite WPF Contrib

Would you like to join as a developer of the Composite WPF Contrib project to share your own extensions or improve the existing codebase? Great! Here is what you need to know

Other p&p Contrib Projects

Source code checked in, #14209

ejadib — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:45:00 GMT

# added sample that demonstrate how to use the Disconnected Service Agent Application Block with CompositeWPF