Unit test WPF Bindings

Question

I am trying to unit test my WPF databindings using the test suit provided by Microsoft Team System. I would like to be able to test the bindings without showing the window

Answer 1

Combining advice I came across in a number of SO posts I wrote the following class which works very well to test WPF bindings.

public static class WpfBindingTester
{
    /// 
load a view in a hidden window and monitor it for binding errors
    /// a data-bound view to load and monitor for binding errors
    public static void AssertBindings(object view)
    {
        using (InternalTraceListener listener = new InternalTraceListener())
        {
            ManualResetEventSlim mre = new ManualResetEventSlim(false);

            Window window = new Window
            {
                Width = 0,
                Height = 0,
                WindowStyle = WindowStyle.None,
                ShowInTaskbar = false,
                ShowActivated = false,
                Content = view
            };

            window.Loaded += (_, __) => mre.Set();
            window.Show();

            mre.Wait();

            window.Close();

            Assert.That(listener.ErrorMessages, Is.Empty, listener.ErrorMessages);
        }
    }

    /// 
Is the test running in an interactive session. Use with Assume.That(WpfBindingTester.IsAvailable) to make sure tests only run where they're able to
    public static bool IsAvailable { get { return Environment.UserInteractive && Process.GetCurrentProcess().SessionId != 0; } }


    private class InternalTraceListener : TraceListener
    {
        private readonly StringBuilder _errors = new StringBuilder();
        private readonly SourceLevels _originalLevel;
        public string ErrorMessages { get { return _errors.ToString(); } }

        static InternalTraceListener() { PresentationTraceSources.Refresh(); }

        public InternalTraceListener()
        {
            _originalLevel = PresentationTraceSources.DataBindingSource.Switch.Level;
            PresentationTraceSources.DataBindingSource.Switch.Level = SourceLevels.Error;
            PresentationTraceSources.DataBindingSource.Listeners.Add(this);
        }

        public override void Write(string message) {}

        public override void WriteLine(string message) { _errors.AppendLine(message); }

        protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
        {
            PresentationTraceSources.DataBindingSource.Listeners.Remove(this);
            PresentationTraceSources.DataBindingSource.Switch.Level = _originalLevel;
            base.Dispose(disposing);
        }
    }
}