如何在非UITest项目中设置VS以使用ImageComparer？

Question

Simply adding a reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITesting doesn't do the trick.

One error I receive complains about a missing DLL:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.WindowsStoreUtility

I would really like to compare 2 images using built-in MSFT libraries, but I can't seem to get around assembly issues for my console app, what do I need to do?

Answer 1

The references are scattered depending on your particular version of Visual Studio. However, I was able to take a look at the dependency structure using Reflector, thus knew that the following dependencies needed to be added to get the class to function correctly:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Common
Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Extension
Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.ExtensionUtilities
Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.WindowsStoreUtility
Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Framework
Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Playback

And of course the main reference to:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITesting.dll

I found these assemblies split between the PrivateAssemblies & PublicAssemblies folder for Visual Studio 2015 in:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies

I then tested with a basic ImageCompare:

bool success = ImageComparer.Compare(img1, img2);

.. and started getting correct results. The MSFT docs on these particular libs are relatively scant, but seem to work well.