How to pass a control imagelist as parameter to other layers?

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Good afternoon.

I have a problem I did not expect in an application windows forms. I'm creating a project in 3 layers, in which I need to send the ImageList control of my presentation layer to the business layer and then to access the data, but the problem is that the latter two layers are of type Class Library. But I can't create mthods like these in the business and data access layers:

C#

public class Business
{
     public void ReadFiles(Imagelist img)
     {
     }
}

Because the imagelist is not a valid type within a class library project. Anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you.

Posted 15-Oct-12 10:34am

Didiron

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[no name] 15-Oct-12 16:40pm

Okay... so why don't you add the proper namespace to the libraries so that an ImageList is a valid type?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Oct-12 18:16pm

How's your guitar? I mean, it's really a bad idea to do what OP wants -- it simply means "no layers".
--SA

[no name] 16-Oct-12 8:25am

It's nice. Got a BC Rich Mockingbird ST.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 16-Oct-12 12:37pm

Never knew what is that -- I play the classic (spanish) 6-string. Sounds impressive though...
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Oct-12 18:15pm

Why?!
--SA

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fjdiewornncalwe · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-15T10:41:00

Solution 1

If you absolutely have to access the ImageList class in a class library, that library just needs to have a reference to System.Windows.Forms added.
The bigger issue I would have is this. There is likely an architectural issue at hand if you feel you require it. You should simply be sending a List of images or something like that around rather than an ImageList control.

Posted 15-Oct-12 10:41am

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Updated 15-Oct-12 10:42am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Oct-12 18:15pm

It's a huge architectural issue already. If this is done between layers, is really means there are no reasonable layers. The UI should be isolated, and no other layers should have any UI concerns, ever.
--SA