Using the WPF Dispatcher in unit tests

Question

I\'m having trouble getting the Dispatcher to run a delegate I\'m passing to it when unit testing. Everything works fine when I\'m running the program, but, during a unit te

Answer 1

Creating a DipatcherFrame worked great for me:

[TestMethod]
public void Search_for_item_returns_one_result()
{
    var searchService = CreateSearchServiceWithExpectedResults("test", 1);
    var eventAggregator = new SimpleEventAggregator();
    var searchViewModel = new SearchViewModel(searchService, 10, eventAggregator) { SearchText = searchText };

    var signal = new AutoResetEvent(false);
    var frame = new DispatcherFrame();

    // set the event to signal the frame
    eventAggregator.Subscribe(new ProgressCompleteEvent(), () =>
       {
           signal.Set();
           frame.Continue = false;
       });

    searchViewModel.Search(); // dispatcher call happening here

    Dispatcher.PushFrame(frame);
    signal.WaitOne();

    Assert.AreEqual(1, searchViewModel.TotalFound);
}