As we can see on the demo site, we see in the “Applications” Menu several applications. In a previous post we already mentioned how to handle a large application easily with the Application Context file.

In the demo site, you currently see more than one application (RandomDemo, Showcase, etc).

Here is a code sample of how you can achieve this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>

<applications  xmlns="http://qafe.com/schema"

               xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

               xsi:schemaLocation="http://qafe.com/schema

                   http://www.qafe.com/schema/application-context.xsd">

        <application name="My First Application" id="5" >

                <application-mapping-file location="helloworld.xml"/>

        </application>

        <application name="Random Demo" id="RandomDemo">

                <application-mapping-file location="RandomDemo.xml"/>

        </application>

        <application name="Showcase" id="showcase">

                <application-mapping-file location="showcase.xml"/>

                <application-mapping-file location="MyService.xml"/>

        </application>

</applications>

As one can see, this appliction-config.xml file contains 3 applications: My First Application, Random Demo and Showcase. The name attribute will be shown as menu-item in the Applications Menu. All the windows that are defined in the corresponding QAML files, will be submenu items of this menu-item.

The id needs to be unique.

Since QAFE can be a MDI (Multiple Document Interface) application, this kind of configuration allows you to create such kinds of applications easily.