I got it running!

What did I do:

1. I built the Infragistics CAB Extensibility Kit (mainly to see if it is compileable)
2. Then I set up my own "clean" SCSF solution
3. Finally I included the Infragistics CAB project into my solution

Now I am able to use i.e. IGFormShellApplication

All I have to do is to reference the included project. 

I hope that helps. Regards,

Gerald

The first line of the previous post should have been "I got it built"
because as soon as I started the application I got an exception in the shell's run method in line

new ShellApplication().Run();

The exception reads like this

Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI.Services.ModuleEnumeratorException was unhandled
  Message="An exception occurred while enumerating the modules using the Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI.Services.FileCatalogModuleEnumerator enumerator."
  Source="Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI"
  StackTrace:
       at Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI.Services.FileCatalogModuleEnumerator.EnumerateModules()
       at Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI.CabApplication`1.LoadModules()
       at Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI.CabApplication`1.Run()
       at InfragisticsCAB.Infrastructure.Shell.ShellApplication.RunInDebugMode() in C:\Temp\build\test\InfragisticsCAB\Source\Infrastructure\Shell\ShellApplication.cs:line 61
       at InfragisticsCAB.Infrastructure.Shell.ShellApplication.Main() in C:\Temp\build\test\InfragisticsCAB\Source\Infrastructure\Shell\ShellApplication.cs:line 52
       at System.AppDomain._nExecuteAssembly(Assembly assembly, String[ args)
       at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly(String assemblyFile, Evidence assemblySecurity, String[ args)
       at Microsoft.VisualStudio.HostingProcess.HostProc.RunUsersAssembly()
       at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
       at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
       at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()
  InnerException: Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI.Configuration.SolutionProfileReaderException
       Message="An error occurred while reading the solution profile C:\\Temp\\build\\test\\InfragisticsCAB\\bin\\Debug\\ProfileCatalog.xml."
       Source="Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI"
       StackTrace:
            at Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI.Configuration.SolutionProfileReader.ReadProfile()
            at Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI.Services.FileCatalogModuleEnumerator.EnumerateModules()
       InnerException: System.InvalidOperationException
            Message="There is an error in XML document (1, 2)."
            Source="System.Xml"
            StackTrace:
                 at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Deserialize(XmlReader xmlReader, String encodingStyle, XmlDeserializationEvents events)
                 at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Deserialize(XmlReader xmlReader, String encodingStyle)
                 at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Deserialize(XmlReader xmlReader)
                 at Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI.Configuration.SolutionProfileReader.ReadProfile()
            InnerException: System.InvalidOperationException
                 Message="<SolutionProfile xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/pag/cab-profile/2.0'> was not expected."
                 Source="qbyhvdah"
                 StackTrace:
                      at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationReaderSolutionProfileElement.Read5_SolutionProfile()
                 InnerException:

All I did was changing one line in ShellApplication.cs from

to

and including an appropriate using statement (to make IGFormShellApplication known).

After that change my application isn't able to read the file SolutionProfile.xml anymore.

Does anybody know the reason for that behavior?

Is Infragistics not able to work with SCSF (only pure CAB)? I ask because I just got the impression.

Thanks for answers,

Gerald

I think the better one to inherite IGFormShellApplication is the SmartClientApplication class in Infrastructure.Library

public abstract class SmartClientApplication<TWorkItem, TShell> : FormShellApplication<TWorkItem, TShell>

to

public abstract class SmartClientApplication<TWorkItem, TShell> : IGFormShellApplication<TWorkItem, TShell> 

cheers

Whoaw; it works at last, with this trick :

mcsean said:

public abstract class SmartClientApplication<TWorkItem, TShell> : IGFormShellApplication<TWorkItem, TShell> 

really great

Thanks a lot

PS : It requires to include a reference to Infragistics.Practices.CompositeUI.WinForms in Infrastructure.Library