Working with other companies custom components in Silverlight

[Jess]

Hello,

While everyone knows Telerik components are the best, sometimes at my company we use a competitor's 3rd party components. Namely ComponentOne. I have a ComponentOne ComboBox - C1.Silverlight.C1ComboBox which I need to work with using the Test Framework. I cannot cast this using the ArtOfTest.WebAii.Silverlight.UI.ComboBox class as it throws an exception. I have to work with these other company's components during automation testing so there is no getting around it. How do I handle these cases? Just working with FrameworkElement is not sufficient for our purposes.

Thanks a bunch!

[Jacek Drozd]

Hi Jess,

There is something that might help You:

http://www.telerik.com/automated-testing-tools/community/forums/test-studio-express/automation-framework/can-i-automate-custom-controls.aspx

Another option is writing wrapper classes following way:

  public class SampleClass
    {
        public SampleClass(SilverlightApp app)
        {
            Initialize(app);
        }

        public void Refresh(SilverlightApp app)
        {
            Clean();
            Initialize(app);
        }
}

In Initialize method You extract all necessary elements.
In Clean You have to clean all elements.

[Jess]

Hello,

Thanks for your reply. A co-worker found that thread last night and we were able to get the properties off of the custom control that we wanted. I appreciate your response. 

J

[Cody]

Hello,

@Jacek, thanks for jumping in and assisting. I've granted you some Telerik points for your efforts.

@Jess, I am very glad to hear you found a working solution. Feel free to contact us here if you need any further assistance.

Kind regards,
Cody
the Telerik team