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Calcium: A Modular Application Toolset Leveraging PRISM – Part 2

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Calcium provides much of what one needs to rapidly build a multifaceted and sophisticated modular application. Includes a host of modules and services, and an infrastructure that is ready to use in your next application.
#region File and License Information
/*
<File>
	<Copyright>Copyright © 2007, Daniel Vaughan. All rights reserved.</Copyright>
	<License see="prj:///Documentation/License.txt"/>
	<Owner Name="Daniel Vaughan" Email="dbvaughan@gmail.com"/>
	<CreationDate>2008-11-03 23:12:56Z</CreationDate>
	<LastSubmissionDate>$Date: $</LastSubmissionDate>
	<Version>$Revision: $</Version>
</File>
*/
#endregion

using System.Reflection;

namespace DanielVaughan.Communication
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Use <code>IChannelManager</code> to create simplex and duplex WCF channels.
	/// </summary>
	public interface IChannelManager
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Creates or retrieves a cached service channel.
		/// <example>
		///	var simpleService = ChannelManagerSingleton.Instance.GetChannel<ISimpleService>();
		///	string result = string.Empty;
		///	try
		///	{
		///		/* Perform synchronous WCF call. */
		///		result = SynchronousChannelBroker.PerformAction<string, string>(
		///			simpleService.BeginGetGreeting, simpleService.EndGetGreeting, "there");
		///	}
		///	catch (TargetInvocationException ex)
		///	{
		///		DisplayMessage(string.Format("Unable to communicate with server. {0} {1}", 
		///			ex.Message, ex.StackTrace));
		///	}
		/// </example>
		/// </summary>
		/// <returns>A channel of the specified type.</returns>
		/// <exception cref="TargetInvocationException">Occurs if the service implements <code>IClientService</code>, 
		/// and the call to ConnectFromClient results in a <code>TargetInvocationException</code></exception>
		TService GetChannel<TService>();

		/// <summary>
		/// Creates a duplex service channel.
		/// <example>
		///	var simpleDuplexService = ChannelManagerSingleton.Instance.GetDuplexChannel<IMyService>(new MyServiceCallback());
		///	string result = string.Empty;
		///	try
		///	{
		///		/* Perform synchronous WCF call. */
		///		result = SynchronousChannelBroker.PerformAction<string, string>(
		///			simpleDuplexService.BeginGetGreeting, simpleDuplexService.EndGetGreeting, "there");
		///	}
		///	catch (TargetInvocationException ex)
		///	{
		///		DisplayMessage(string.Format("Unable to communicate with server. {0} {1}", 
		///			ex.Message, ex.StackTrace));
		///	}
		/// </example>
		/// <example>
		/// var channelManager = unityContainer.Resolve&lt;IChannelManager&gt;();
		/// var myService = channelManager.GetDuplexChannel<IMyService>(new MyServiceCallback());
		/// </example>
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="callbackInstance">Is used by the server to communicate to the client.</param>
		/// <returns>A channel of the specified type.</returns>
		/// <exception cref="TargetInvocationException">Occurs if the service implements <code>IClientService</code>, 
		/// and the call to ConnectFromClient results in a <code>TargetInvocationException</code></exception>
		TService GetDuplexChannel<TService>(object callbackInstance);
	}
}

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Daniel is a former senior engineer in Technology and Research at the Office of the CTO at Microsoft, working on next generation systems.

Previously Daniel was a nine-time Microsoft MVP and co-founder of Outcoder, a Swiss software and consulting company.

Daniel is the author of Windows Phone 8 Unleashed and Windows Phone 7.5 Unleashed, both published by SAMS.

Daniel is the developer behind several acclaimed mobile apps including Surfy Browser for Android and Windows Phone. Daniel is the creator of a number of popular open-source projects, most notably Codon.

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