Question

I have a windows form app written in C#. the main_form class instantiates an AccessProcess named AccessProcessWorker which is a class that inherits from BackgroundWorker, then main_form then initializes Process with the following code

        AccessProcessWorker.DoWork += new DoWorkEventHandler(processWorker.worker_DoWork);
        AccessProcessWorker.RunWorkerCompleted += new RunWorkerCompletedEventHandler(processWorkerCompleted);
        AccessProcessWorker.ProgressChanged += new ProgressChangedEventHandler(processProgressChanged);

this application has just gone from POC to “make it work fast”.

I wrote this app to work against an Access database but now want to make it go against MS Sql, but leave the option to work against access also. So, I could do something ugly like instantiate and initialize a SqlProcessWorker or AccessProcessWorker based on some UI selection made by the user. But what I’d like to do is make it so main_form always creates something like an IProcess so I didn’t have to add logic to main_form every time there is a new ProcessWorker. The problem in my design is that the initializing breaks when I do it the way I described.

If anyone has any ideas, or need further clairification please let me know.

Answer 1

What you look for is called “dependency injection”.