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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace CobaltSoftware.Foundation.ModelViewPresenter
{
/// <summary>
/// The IPresenter interface defines an active presenter in the Model-View-Presenter
/// pattern. The presenter maintains and controls multiple views, which are introduced
/// to it by an orchestration mechanism. As each view is registered the presenter will
/// attach to appropriate events on it and also push changed state into it. Whenever another
/// view of the presenter raises an event, it is the duty of the preseter to effectively
/// multicast these events to other listening views.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// <para>
/// <list>
/// <listheader>Version History</listheader>
/// <item>10 October, 2009 - Steve Gray - Initial Draft</item>
/// </list>
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// This implementation uses self-constrained generics to allow
/// bi-directional strong coupling of interface types for both
/// presenter and view, allowing mutual strong references.
/// </para>
/// </remarks>
/// <typeparam name="TPresenterContract">Presenter contract type</typeparam>
/// <typeparam name="TViewContract">View contract type</typeparam>
public interface IPresenter<TPresenterContract, TViewContract>
where TPresenterContract : IPresenter<TPresenterContract, TViewContract>
where TViewContract : IView<TViewContract, TPresenterContract>
{
/// <summary>
/// Connect a view to this presenter.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="viewInstance">View instance</param>
/// <param name="requiresState">Requires initial state to be pushed into view.</param>
void ConnectView(TViewContract viewInstance, bool requiresState);
/// <summary>
/// Disconnect a view from this presenter.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="viewInstance">View instance</param>
void DisconnectView(TViewContract viewInstance);
}
}
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Steve Gray is a Senior Developer at a British insurance company, working on a popular aggregator. When he's not writing ASP .NET, it's because there's SQL or WCF to write instead.