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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;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Browser;

using Sample.Silverlight.WCF.Views;

namespace Sample.Silverlight.WCF
{
	public partial class App : Application
	{
		public App()
		{
			Startup += Application_Startup;
			Exit += Application_Exit;
			UnhandledException += Application_UnhandledException;

			InitializeComponent();
		}

		private void Application_Startup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e)
		{
			RootVisual = new TaskManagementView();
		}

		private void Application_Exit(object sender, EventArgs e)
		{}

		private void Application_UnhandledException(object sender, ApplicationUnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
		{
			ReportErrorToDOM(e);
			e.Handled = true;

			// If the app is running outside of the debugger then report the exception using
			// the browser's exception mechanism. On IE this will display it a yellow alert 
			// icon in the status bar and Firefox will display a script error.
			if (!Debugger.IsAttached)
			{
				// NOTE: This will allow the application to continue running after an exception has been thrown
				// but not handled. 
				// For production applications this error handling should be replaced with something that will 
				// report the error to the website and stop the application.
				e.Handled = true;
				Deployment.Current.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(delegate { ReportErrorToDOM(e); });
			}
		}

		private void ReportErrorToDOM(ApplicationUnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
		{
			try
			{
				string errorMsg = e.ExceptionObject.Message + e.ExceptionObject.StackTrace;
				errorMsg = errorMsg.Replace('"', '\'').Replace("\r\n", @"\n");

				HtmlPage.Window.Eval(
				                     "throw new Error(\"Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application " +
				                     errorMsg + "\");");
			}
			catch (Exception)
			{}
		}
	}
}

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