Guidance Needed on User Interface Process Application Block (UIPAB) - Starting a Open Navigation Task

Does anyone know of a good existing walkthrough-style tutorial on the UIPAB

I've read through the whole reference to the UIP Application Block a couple of times but I'm confused by something stated in the UIPAB reference:

Under the heading "Starting and Resuming Tasks" the reference tell you that to start a task you must call:

UIPManager.StartOpenNavigationTask(name As String, firstViewName As String)

where name is the name of the navigationGraph element in app.config. But elsewhere in the reference it states:

"If you are using the open navigator, you do not need to define any of the optional sections [includes navigationGraph element, I presume] because you call the views directly."

How then do you start an Open Navigator without naming it in the config file

Thanks for the help.
Mark

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Guidance Needed on User Interface Process Application Block (UIPAB) - Starting a Open Navigation Task

Dennis Pillay
Thanks. I'd Google'd those two before. I also found "Hello UIPAB" from the same website and "Structure the user experience with User Interface Process Application Block" which may be a bit too sparse for most but I also found "Using Design Patterns in the Presentation Layer" from Microsoft deals with the UIPAB quite well.

Still wondering about the "starting an open navigator task" I mentioned above though.

Thanks
Ian Fowlds
Mark,

I had problems getting this to work, when Calling the OpenNavigator. I found that I had to put the following default="true" atrributes in my web.config for the IviewManager and the State tag.

<objectTypes>

<iViewManager default="true" name="WebViewManager"

type= "Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.UIProcess.WebFormViewManager,Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.UIProcess,Version=1.0.1.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=null" />

<state default="true" name="State"

type="Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.UIProcess.State,Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.UIProcess,Version=1.0.1.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=null" />

Also found that upon calling the openNavigator, it did not matter what I passed in for the Nav param, but as soon as My controller called a method that depended on the Actual Navigation Graph, it blew up, so when I start with my open navigator, I pass in the name of the actual navigation Graph

Hope this helps
TohKung

Try http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/UIPAB1.asp and http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/UIPAB2.asp

Arnon
Guidance Needed on User Interface Process Application Block (UIPAB) - Starting a Open Navigation Task

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