Conversion issue with OrderURI, OrderKind

[ehaustin]

Hello - Conversion issue on OrderURI and OrderKind
I am using the following declarations.Failing on error below.


using SoftPro.OrderTracking.Client.Orders;
using SoftPro.Select.Client;
using SoftPro.OrderTracking;
using SoftPro.Select.Shell;


protected void OpenOrderPane(Guid orderID)
{
IShell objShell = (IShell)m_objServiceProvider.GetService(typeof(IShell));

if (objShell != null)
{
try
{

objShell.OpenStandardEditor(new OrderUri(OrderKind.Order, orderID));
 Error 3 The type or namespace name 'OrderUri' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) Also OrderKind is not recognized?

[BobRichards]

The OrderUri and OrderKind definitions are in SoftPro.Select.OrderTracking.Shared.dll. What are you trying to accomplish?

[BobRichards]

I assume you want to open the order in Select client. You can use the following code. In this case, I am opening order "2014110004" for the user.

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// Get the guid for the order by getting it's IOrderInfo from the server.
SelectServer ss = GetService<SelectServer>();
IOrderStore orderStore = ss.GetService<IOrderStore>();
IOrderInfo orderInfo = orderStore.Orders.FirstOrDefault(t => t.Number == "2014110004");

// Now create an OrderUri and have Select open it for the user.
IShell shell = GetService<IShell>();
OrderUri uri = new OrderUri(OrderKind.Order, new OrderIdentifier(orderInfo.Identifier.Guid));
shell.OpenStandardEditor(uri);

[ddudley3]

following this post and yet the Shell object


IShell shell = GetService<IShell>();

is null after this point...
Why is that?

I am doing a ss.GetService<IShell>()
where ss is my SelectServer object.

[BobRichards]

If IShell is null, then it is not available. IShell is an interface available to Select Shell packages only (shell packages are described in the SDK in How-To/Shell Package Development). I suspect you are not a shell package or something non-standard is going on with your design.

Assuming you have created a shell package, I would need to see your source for the event (button) invocation and the surrounding logic for this attempt to get IShell.

[kkirkfield]

Hi Bob, I also ran into this problem today. I sent a sample project to Brian Bradley to forward to you. It is a shell package and shows the shell service is null.

[BobRichards]

I have received the code from kkirkfield and it has two basic issues - (1) You should never get the SelectServer object in a Select Shell package and (2) IShell is never available from the SelectServer object.

(1) While creating a custom Editor window, the following incorrect code was created. You never need to get your own connection to the Select mid-tier in a Shelll package - you already have one. When you get an additional SelectServer object, you have simply consumed a second license.

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protected override Control OnCreateControl()
{
	using (var server = new SelectServer("http://localhost:8080"))
	{
	    string reason;
	    if (!server.TryAuthenticate(out reason))
	    {
	        Trace.TraceError(reason);
	        return null;
	    }

		// Get order from order store.
		 var orderStore = server.GetService<IOrderStore>().Where(t => ...);

		// Continue with Select Shell package code...
	}
}

The corrected code would be:

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protected override Control OnCreateControl()
{
	// Get SelectServer object that already exists in Select Shell.
	SelectServer server = GetService<SelectServer>();

	// Get order from order store.
	var orderStore = server.GetService<IOrderStore>().Where(t => ...);

	// Continue with Select Shell package code...
}

(2) You can only get the IShell interface from the Select Shell local service provider. See below for the correct method.

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public MiscShellPackageFxn()
{
	//var shell = server.GetService<IShell>();  // INCORRECT: IShell is never in the SelectServer service container.
	
    var shell = GetService<IShell>();           // CORRECT: Get IShell from shell package service container.
}

[kkirkfield]

Thanks Bob. I'll try that later tonight. One more question, does the SelectServer retrieved through the package service provider need to be disposed, or is it automatically handled by the client when it closes?

[BobRichards]

The client will take care of disposing it.

[ddudley3]

Thanks I had figured it out before even reading this.