Adding Business Services in WPF with Prism and Unity: Listing 1

Defining the data transfer objects.

public class CustomerDTO
{
  public string CustomerID { get; set; }
  public string CompanyName {get ; set; }
}

public interface ICustomerFactory
{
  System.Collections.ObjectModel.
      ObservableCollection<CustomerDTO> GetAllCustomers();
}

public class MockCustomerFactory : ICustomerFactory
{
  public System.Collections.ObjectModel.
     ObservableCollection<CustomerDTO> GetAllCustomers()
  {
    CustomerDTO cdto;
    System.Collections.ObjectModel.
      ObservableCollection<CustomerDTO> dummyCusts = new 
        System.Collections.ObjectModel.
              ObservableCollection<CustomerDTO>();
    cdto = new CustomerDTO { CustomerID = "A123", 
     CompanyName = "A company" };
    dummyCusts.Add(cdto);
            
    cdto = new CustomerDTO() { CustomerID = "PHVIS", 
CompanyName = "PH&V Information Services"};
    dummyCusts.Add(cdto);
            
    return dummyCusts;
  }
}

About the Author

Peter Vogel is a system architect and principal in PH&V Information Services. PH&V provides full-stack consulting from UX design through object modeling to database design. Peter tweets about his VSM columns with the hashtag #vogelarticles. His blog posts on user experience design can be found at http://blog.learningtree.com/tag/ui/.

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