The document tabs had two parallel hierarchies: the ContentTabPage dockable wrapper, and four unrelated content viewmodels in its object? Content slot -- three TabPageModel subclasses plus OptionsPageModel, which derived from a bare ObservableObject. The wrapper bridged the gap by reflection (reading Title off the runtime type) and the router duck-typed IsStaticContent across two unrelated classes.
Collapse the content side under one abstract ContentPageModel base (named to avoid a clash with Avalonia.Controls.ContentPage). OptionsPageModel joins it, dropping its duplicate Title/IsStaticContent. ContentTabPage.Content becomes ContentPageModel?, so title/language-switching read directly and IsWritablePreview collapses from two runtime type-tests to one IsStaticContent check. CreateTab and the dock-router helpers are typed through. Morph-in-place is unchanged -- the One still swaps its Content in place; this only strengthens the types behind it.
To audit what each UI test actually exercises, every step now snapshots the
live window to <TestFixtureName>/<TestName>_<NN>_<ShortDescription>.png: a
booted frame (emitted automatically by TestHarness.BootAsync), one after each
state-changing action, and one before each assertion. Flip ILSPY_TESTS_VISIBLE=1
to render the filmstrip; it lands under %TEMP%/ilspy-test-captures (overridable
via ILSPY_TEST_CAPTURES).
The step number and fixture/test name are derived automatically so inserting a
breakpoint never renumbers the rest. The identity is recorded up front from the
real ITest in an ITestAction hook rather than read live: NUnit's
TestContext.CurrentContext does not flow onto async continuations, so a capture
after an await would otherwise collide under the ad-hoc context. And when
rendering is off the whole call is a true no-op -- not even a dispatcher pump --
so instrumenting a test can never perturb the navigation/tab timing it asserts
on. Full headless suite stays green.
Nearly every headless UI test opened with the same four-line prologue
(resolve the shared MainWindow, show it, cast its DataContext, wait for the
assembly list), then repeated the corelib lookup, the EnsureLazyChildren +
Children.OfType<T>().Single() drill, the registry single-by-header lookups,
and the open-an-assembly-and-wait dance. The duplication made the intent of
each test hard to see and every signature tweak a suite-wide edit.
Collapse those into TestHarness (BootAsync, OpenAssemblyAsync, GetCommand,
GetEntry) and TreeNavigation extensions (FindCoreLib, GetChild<T>, Expand<T>),
then apply them across the suite. Net ~865 lines of boilerplate removed with
no change in behaviour; the full headless suite stays green.
User-reported: opening multiple document tabs and restarting brings them
all back broken except the first one.
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Sweep-up commit. The dotnet-format pre-commit hook keeps re-ordering
these usings on every other commit; landing them once stops the hook
from grumbling at unrelated diffs going forward.
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Persists the live dock layout to ILSpy.Layout.json next to ILSpy.xml on
MainWindow.OnClosing; loads it on DockWorkspace ctor; falls back to
factory.CreateLayout when the file is absent or fails to deserialize.
WPF stays XML in ILSpy.xml — this is Avalonia-side only.
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Siegfried Pammer