Project Description

This project provides a new reference implementation for the Composite WPF libraries. During the development of this reference implementation I have extracted some useful classes into a new library called ‘Composite Extensions’.



The Test Suite reference implementation was originally developed for the Composite UI Application Block. You might already know this application from one of the Websites:

• Diploma Thesis: Evaluation of Plug-In Architectures for a Test Suite
• CodePlex: CAB Extension / Test Suite reference application
• CodePlex: Smart Client Contrib

I have ported this application to use WPF instead of Windows Forms and the Composite Application Guidance for WPF instead of the Composite UI Application Block. The migration work was very informative because it showed me that by using separated interfaces and dependency injection the time and effort for porting the application to a new application framework was really low. Quite another story was the migration from Windows Forms to WPF. It took me a lot more time to recreate the User Interface layer in WPF because I had to learn the new concepts of WPF first.

Documentation

A description of the Test Suite reference implementation can be found in my diploma thesis. But be aware that the diploma thesis describes the old Test Suite reference implementation which uses the Composite UI Application Block.

Discussions

• Best Practices: Should I create own assemblies for module interfaces?
• Best Practices: How to handle shared resources in a modular application?