Returning to BETA 1 style Object Declarations in CodedUI Tests

Question

No offence like, but the New Mode of Displaying the object declarations is entirely inferior to what Beta 1 was like.

Beta 1 was like this

 

 

WpfWindow wpfWindow = new WpfWindow();

#region Search Criteria

wpfWindow.SearchProperties.AddRange(new PropertyExpression("Name", "Company Name - Product Name"), new PropertyExpression("ClassName", "HwndWrapper", PropertyExpressionOperator.Contains));

#endregion

WpfCustom PaneListCustom = new WpfCustom(wpfWindow);

#region Search Criteria

PaneListCustom .SearchProperties.Add("ClassName", "Uia.ContentPane", "Friendly Name", "My Pane");

#endregion

However - Now Beta 2 Records objects like this

 

 

this.UIMap.RecordedMethod1();

 

 

Which then has the contents of

#region Variable Declarations
            WpfText Text = this.UIProductMainWindow.Z948e828dc9fa48c8927Custom.MainContentTabList.WindowTabPage.Text;
            #endregion

If I then want to see the search criteria for each of these individual parts, I need to right click on that object, and then see the definition. Even then... im noticing it is not showing me Search Criteria. Meaning it becomes that much harder to program methods which can locate dynamically changing objects.

Please tell me there is an option that will let me switch back to Beta 1's recording/search criteria mode.

Answer 1

No, there no way to switch back to Beta 1 style of code generation.

In the new code generation, the class is split into two partial classes.  So in UIMap.cs, you can add a constructor and add code to customize the search properties of corresponding control.

Will the above work?

Thanks.