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Frictionless WCF service consumption in Silverlight - Part 3: Benefits of transparent asynchrony with respect to unit testing

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Simplifying unit testing of View Models which use asynchronous WCF service calls.
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using System.Windows.Input;

using Sample.Silverlight.WCF.Infrastructure;
using Sample.Silverlight.WCF.Infrastructure.Actions;
using Sample.Silverlight.WCF.Infrastructure.Services;
using Sample.Silverlight.WCF.Web.Services;

namespace Sample.Silverlight.WCF.Views
{
	public class TaskManagementViewModel : ViewModelBase
	{
		const string address = "http://localhost:2210/Services/TaskService.svc";
		ServiceCallBuilder<ITaskService> build;

		Task selected;
		string description;
		
		public TaskManagementViewModel()
			: this(null)
		{}

		public TaskManagementViewModel(ITaskService instance)
		{
			InitializeServices(instance);
			InitializeProperties();
			InitializeCommands();
		}

		void InitializeServices(ITaskService instance)
		{
			build = new ServiceCallBuilder<ITaskService>(instance, address);
		}
		
		void InitializeProperties()
		{
			Tasks = new ObservableCollection<Task>();
		}

		void InitializeCommands()
		{
			var cmd = new ViewModelCommandBuilder(this);

			CreateCommand = cmd.For(()=> Create());
			DeleteCommand = cmd.For(()=> Delete());
			MarkCompleteCommand = cmd.For(()=> MarkComplete());
		}

		public ICommand CreateCommand
		{
			get; private set;
		}

		public ICommand MarkCompleteCommand
		{
			get; private set;
		}

		public ICommand DeleteCommand
		{
			get; private set;
		}

		public ObservableCollection<Task> Tasks
		{
			get; private set;
		}

		public Task Selected
		{
			get { return selected; }
			set
			{
				selected = value;

				NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => Selected);
				NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => CanDelete);
				NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => CanMarkComplete);
			}
		}

		public string Description
		{
			get { return description; }
			set
			{
				description = value;

				NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => Description);
				NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => CanCreate);
			}
		}

		public IEnumerable<IAction> Activate()
		{
			var action = build.Query(service => service.GetAll());
			yield return action;

			foreach (Task each in action.Result)
			{
				Tasks.Add(each);
			}

			Selected = Tasks[0];
		}

		public IEnumerable<IAction> Create()
		{
			var action = build.Query(service => service.Create(Description));
			yield return action;

			Task newTask = action.Result;
			Tasks.Insert(0, newTask);
			
			Selected = newTask;
			Description = "";
		}

		public bool CanCreate
		{
			get { return !string.IsNullOrEmpty(Description); }
		}

		public IEnumerable<IAction> MarkComplete()
		{
			Task task = Selected;

			var command = build.Query(service => service.MarkComplete(task.Id));
			yield return command;

			Task updatedTask = command.Result;
			Replace(task, updatedTask);
			
			Selected = updatedTask;
		}

		public bool CanMarkComplete
		{
			get { return Selected != null && !Selected.IsCompleted; }
		}

		void Replace(Task prevTask, Task newTask)
		{
			var position = Tasks.IndexOf(prevTask);
			
			Tasks.RemoveAt(position);
			Tasks.Insert(position, newTask);
		}

		public IEnumerable<IAction> Delete()
		{
			var action = build.Command(service => service.Delete(Selected.Id));
			yield return action;
			
			Tasks.Remove(Selected);

			if (Tasks.Count > 0)
				Selected = Tasks[0];
		}

		public bool CanDelete
		{
			get { return Selected != null; }
		}
	}
}

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