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How To Embed An Application Into a Docking Library

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Step by Step conversion of an application into a Docking application component
��using System;

using System.Linq;

using System.Windows;

using System.Windows.Controls;

using Sofa.Commons;

using Sofa.Container;

using AvalonDock;

using System.Reflection;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.ComponentModel.Composition;

using System.ComponentModel.Composition.Hosting;





namespace SofaBasicContainer

{



    public partial class BaseWindow : Window, IBaseContainer, IPartImportsSatisfiedNotification

    {

        //Import all SofaComponents

        [ImportMany("Sofa.Examples.SofaComponization.SofaBasicContainer_ViewContract", AllowRecomposition = true)]

        private ExportFactory<UserControl, ISofaComponent_Metadata>[] _views = null;



        private CompositionContainer _container;



        //IBaseContainer implementation

        public SofaContainer SofaContainer

        {

            get { return sofaContainer; }

            set { sofaContainer = value; }

        }



        //Not used, required by IBaseContainer

        public SofaMenu SofaMenu

        {

            get { return null; }

            set {  }

        }



        public BaseWindow()

        {

            InitializeComponent();



            Compose();



            ViewComponents.DataContext = sofaContainer.CmpModelList;



            SofaContainer.OpenComponent("CSWPFMasterDetailBinding");

        }



        public void OnImportsSatisfied()

        {

            foreach (var view in _views)

            {

                sofaContainer.RegisterComponent(view);

            }

        }



        private bool Compose()

        {

            var catalog = new AggregateCatalog();

            //Components are built in the SofaContainer\bin\Debug\AddIns\ directory

            catalog.Catalogs.Add(new DirectoryCatalog("AddIns"));



            _container = new CompositionContainer(catalog);

            CompositionBatch batch = new CompositionBatch();

            batch.AddPart(this);

            batch.AddExportedValue<CompositionContainer>(_container);



            try { _container.Compose(batch); }

            catch (CompositionException compositionException)

            {

                MessageBox.Show(compositionException.ToString());

            }

            return true;

        }





        #region Sofacomponents

        //Sofacomponents management - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 



        private void LoadComponent_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

        {

            String componentName = (((System.Windows.Controls.MenuItem)sender).Tag.ToString());

            sofaContainer.OpenComponent(componentName);

        }



        #endregion





    }

}



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