Add support for Find<T>() where T doesn't require a constructor that takes a By search configuration parameter

[icnocop]

In v1.0.6 of CUITe, I am able to do the following:

            ApplicationUnderTest applicationUnderTest = ApplicationUnderTest.Launch(exeFilePath);

            StartTrialWindow startTrialWindow = new StartTrialWindow(applicationUnderTest.Process.MainWindowHandle);

            startTrialWindow.StartButton.Click();

    public class StartTrialWindow : CUITe_WinWindow
    {
        public StartTrialWindow(IntPtr windowHandle) : base("Name=Start Trial")
        {
            UITestControl mainWindow = UITestControlFactory.FromWindowHandle(windowHandle);

            this.Wrap(mainWindow);
        }

       public CUITe_WinButton StartButton { get { return Get<CUITe_WinButton>("Name~Start"); } }
    }

However when migrating to CUITe v2.0.265, I expected to do the following:

ApplicationUnderTest applicationUnderTest = ApplicationUnderTest.Launch(exeFilePath);

StartTrialWindow startTrialWindow = applicationUnderTest.Find<StartTrialWindow>();

startTrialWindow.StartButton.Click();

    public class StartTrialWindow : WinWindow
    {
        public StartTrialWindow() : base(By.Name("Start Trial"))
        {
        }

       public WinButton StartButton { get { return Find<WinButton>(By.NameContains("Start")); } }
    }

But instead, I get the following run-time exception:

System.ArgumentException: No constructor for type 'StartTrialWindow' contains arguments in the following order:
  1. By - Search configuration
at CUITe.Controls.ControlBaseFactory.Create(Type controlType, By searchConfiguration)
   at CUITe.Controls.ControlBaseFactory.Create[T](By searchConfiguration)
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITesting.UITestControlExtensions.Find[T](UITestControl self, By searchConfiguration)
   at ...

[icnocop]

As a work-around, I have to do StartTrialWindow startTrialWindow = new StartTrialWindow(); but this doesn't limit the search to only windows created by the application under test.

[FantasticFiasco]

I would love to remove or deprecate ApplicationUnderTest, CUITe_WinWindow and the other related classes. I think PageObjects and ScreenObjects are its successors.

Is there anything page objects and screen objects cannot do that you could do prior with the object repository?

With the code you have, what happens when you inherit from Screen instead of WinWindow?

[icnocop]

I get a compilation error if I inherit from Screen instead of WinWindow:

public class StartTrialWindow : Screen
{
    public StartTrialWindow() : base(By.Name("Start Trial"))
    {
    }

    public WinButton StartButton { get { return Find<WinButton>(By.NameContains("Start")); } }
}

'Screen' does not contain a constructor that takes 1 arguments

I expected to be able to set the title of the window (and any other search properties) in the constructor.
I think this would be important if there are multiple windows displayed by the application under test so the expected window would actually be found.

I get some other compiler errors because there are places where I assert that the window does not exist:

'StartTrialWindow' does not contain a definition for 'Exists' and no extension method 'Exists' accepting a first argument of type 'StartTrialWindow' could be found

It seems Page and PageComponent are only for HTML and Silverlight applications, but I am testing a Win32 application.

[FantasticFiasco]

I'll start to look into it. Thanks for pointing it out.

[icnocop]

I created a pull request for your review, whenever you have the time. Thank you! 😄