DevForce Community Forum : xap files composition http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; DevForce Community Forum : Community Forum : xap files composition Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:18:40 -700 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:17:44 -700 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.69 360 www.ideablade.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=3370 DevForce Community Forum http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_images/IdeaBlade_logo_tm.png http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ xap files composition : Originally posted by illidanAddXap... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3370&PID=13193#13193 Author: mgood
Subject: 3370
Posted: 02-Apr-2012 at 11:17am

Originally posted by illidan

AddXap exist from the beginning in MEF. The question is, do I have to implement the code which is going to configuration file, loads all file names and passing them to AddXap method, or coctail team provide something like this out of box.

No, there isn't currently anything prebuilt to eager load your modules based on a configuration file. AddXap provides the low level functionality of loading the XAP, that goes further than the standard MEF DeploymentCatalog. With Composition.AddXap you can actually have entire new domain models in the XAP you are loading and they get properly discovered and initialized. It also makes sure that the underlying ViewLocator is made aware of the new assemblies that might contain views.

Cocktail follows the convention-over-configuration principal. We rarely eager load modules. The application logic/flow should be in charge of loading a XAP when it's actually needed and not way in advance when it might never be used.

Having said that, occasionally the need arises to eager load certain modules during startup, but Cocktail currently leaves that up to the developer for how she wants to do this. The hooks are there. For example you can overload FrameworkBootstrapper.StartRuntimeAsync to perform the eager loading as part of the application's bootstrapping.

Just keep in mind that eager loading anything delays the application startup. Breaking an application into multiple XAPs is intended to speed up said startup and reduce the initial download size. Eager loading the modules kinda defeats that and the more XAPs you eager load the higher the overhead due to the multiple downloads that get initiated. It generally leads to a better user experience to defer loading. You could load in the background, but then you have to implement ugly logic that prevents the user from entering a certain module until it's loaded completely.

Just a few thoughts to ponder.

Edited by DFFadmin - 02-Apr-2012 at 11:45am]]> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:17:44 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3370&PID=13193#13193 xap files composition : Essentially all you need to do... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3370&PID=13187#13187 Author: smi-mark
Subject: 3370
Posted: 02-Apr-2012 at 8:29am

Essentially all you need to do is call Composition.AddXap

See this article for more information http://drc.ideablade.com/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/cocktail-dynamic-xap
]]> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:29:47 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3370&PID=13187#13187 xap files composition : AddXapexist from the beginning... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3370&PID=13186#13186 Author: illidan
Subject: 3370
Posted: 02-Apr-2012 at 6:23am

AddXap exist from the beginning in MEF. The question is, do I have to implement the code which is going to configuration file, loads all file names and passing them to  AddXap method, or coctail team provide something like this out of box.]]> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:23:31 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3370&PID=13186#13186 xap files composition : in Coktail, you can use the static... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3370&PID=13184#13184 Author: Walid
Subject: 3370
Posted: 02-Apr-2012 at 5:52am

in Coktail, you can use the static method AddXap method from the composition class. 
All the logic is already implemented by Devforce and cocktail. 
]]> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 05:52:11 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3370&PID=13184#13184 xap files composition : P.S. It is a Silverlight application.P.P.S.... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3370&PID=13183#13183 Author: illidan
Subject: 3370
Posted: 02-Apr-2012 at 5:35am

P.S. It is a Silverlight application.
P.P.S. You have a bug in you forum, in counting views of topic. Going into the topic and back keeps the count increase.
]]> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 05:35:25 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3370&PID=13183#13183 xap files composition : Hello,In my application I want... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3370&PID=13182#13182 Author: illidan
Subject: 3370
Posted: 02-Apr-2012 at 5:30am

Hello,
In my application I want to create several independent modules (in different assemblies), and load all of them during application startup. Most (if not all) composition frameworks allow to specify list of the parts in some kind of configuration file. My question is: how I do that in coctail? Do you have something ready to use, or i have to implement this functionality by myself?

Thanks in advance.
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