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Building an MVP Framework for .NET. Part 4: Strongly Typed Associations

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25 Apr 2008Ms-PL2 min read 27.4K   339   31  
In this article we continue developing a Model-View-Presenter framework for .NET platform. The new features we are implementing here are strongly typed asscoiations between controllers, views and tasks for higher convenience and type safety.
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// MVC# Framework | www.MVCSharp.org        |
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// Copyright (C) 2008 www.MVCSharp.org      |
// All rights reserved.                     |
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using System;
using System.Text;
using MVCSharp.Core.Configuration.Views;

namespace MVCSharp.Winforms.Configuration
{
    #region Documentation
    /// <summary>
    /// This attribute should by applied to view classes intended
    /// for windows forms presentation mechanism.
    /// </summary>
    /// <remarks>
    /// For this attribute to be properly processed <see cref="MVCSharp.Core.Configuration.MVCConfiguration.ViewInfosProviderType"/>
    /// property should be equal to the <see cref="WinformsViewInfosProvider"/>  type.
    /// If so, then <see cref="WinformsViewInfo"/> objects will be generated for
    /// each WinformsViewAttribute occurrence.
    /// </remarks>
    #endregion
    [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class, AllowMultiple = true)]
    public class WinformsViewAttribute : ViewAttribute
    {
        private bool showModal;
        private bool isMdiParent;
        private string mdiParent;

        #region Documentation
        /// <summary>
        /// Constructor taking the task type, and the view name as parameters.
        /// </summary>
        #endregion
        public WinformsViewAttribute(Type taskType, string viewName) : base(taskType, viewName)
        { }

        #region Documentation
        /// <summary>
        /// Parameterless constructor.
        /// </summary>
        #endregion
        public WinformsViewAttribute()
        { }

        #region Documentation
        /// <summary>
        /// Specifies whether a view should be displayed as a modal dialog box.
        /// </summary>
        #endregion
        public bool ShowModal
        {
            get { return showModal; }
            set { showModal = value; }
        }

        #region Documentation
        /// <summary>
        /// Specifies whether a view should act as an MDI parent form.
        /// </summary>
        #endregion
        public bool IsMdiParent
        {
            get { return isMdiParent; }
            set { isMdiParent = value; }
        }

        #region Documentation
        /// <summary>
        /// Specifies the name of the view that should be an MDI parent for this view.
        /// </summary>
        #endregion
        public string MdiParent
        {
            get { return mdiParent; }
            set { mdiParent = value; }
        }
    }
}

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Oleg Zhukov, born and living in Russia is Lead Engineer and Project Manager in a company which provides business software solutions. He has graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) (department of system programming) and has got a M.S. degree in applied physics and mathematics. His research and development work concerns architectural patterns, domain-driven development and systems analysis. Being the adherent of agile methods he applies them extensively in the projects managed by him.

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