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

I'm late but this is how I do it:

public static void RunMessageLoop(Func action)
{
  var originalContext = SynchronizationContext.Current;
  Exception exception = null;
  try
  {
    SynchronizationContext.SetSynchronizationContext(new DispatcherSynchronizationContext());

    action.Invoke().ContinueWith(t =>
    {
      exception = t.Exception;
    }, TaskContinuationOptions.OnlyOnFaulted).ContinueWith(t => Dispatcher.ExitAllFrames(),
      TaskScheduler.FromCurrentSynchronizationContext());

    Dispatcher.Run();
  }
  finally
  {
    SynchronizationContext.SetSynchronizationContext(originalContext);
  }
  if (exception != null) throw exception;
}