How to Create a Configuration Manager Console Custom View

Question

I am trying to create an assembly per the SDK example here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh948614.aspx
I have added the assemblies per this article:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/5d74d30d-295b-4c51-8518-abdabbad731b/console-extension-custom-view-development?forum=configmanagersdk
Now most of my references resolve but at compile time I get:
Error 1 'MyCustomView.MyViewDescription' does not implement interface member 'Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.AdminConsole.IConsoleView.TypeOfView'. 'MyCustomView.MyViewDescription.TypeOfView' cannot implement an interface member because it is
not public. \MyCustomView\Class2.cs 21 18 MyCustomView
Error 2 'MyCustomView.MyViewDescription' does not implement interface member 'Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.AdminConsole.IConsoleView2.TypeOfViewController'. 'MyCustomView.MyViewDescription.TypeOfViewController' cannot implement an interface
member because it is not public. \MyCustomView\Class2.cs 21 18 MyCustomView
Error 3 'MyCustomView.MyViewDescription.TypeOfViewController': no suitable method found to override MyCustomView\Class2.cs 23 33 MyCustomView
Error 4 'MyCustomView.MyViewDescription.TypeOfView': no suitable method found to override MyCustomView\Class2.cs 24 33 MyCustomView
Error 5 'MyCustomView.MyViewDescription.TryConfigure(ref System.Xml.XmlElement)': no suitable method found to override MyCustomView\Class2.cs 24 109 MyCustomView
I have been hunting around with a couple of decompilers looking for missing references etc for a few hrs and just can't seem to see what I am missing...
I have included the code block here - typically of course I would not include multiple classes in the same CS file but for this POC it should be fine...
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.AdminConsole;
using Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.AdminConsole.Views.Common;
using Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.AdminConsole.Schema;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Xml;
using Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.UI.WpfViews;
using Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.AdminConsole.ConsoleView;
namespace MyCustomView
public class MyViewController : OverviewControllerBase { public MyViewController() : base() { } public override void EndInit() { base.EndInit(); this.Content = new Label() { Content = "My Content" }; } }
public class MyViewDescription : IConsoleView2
override protected Type TypeOfViewController { get { return typeof(MyViewController); } }
override protected Type TypeOfView { get { return typeof(Overview); } } public override bool TryConfigure(ref XmlElement persistedConfigurationData) { return false; }
new public bool TryInitialize(ScopeNode scopeNode, AssemblyDescription resourceAssembly, ViewAssemblyDescription viewAssemblyDescription) { return true; }

Answer 1

Hi Alfonso,
I did eventually release the console extension (see screen shot at the bottom of the page
here).
It has been a while since I worked on this code but as I remember, once I got the references straightened out (see this thread), a lot of the confusion I had was just understanding that some of the programming that had to be done was in WPF (not WinForm).
 The sample code from Microsoft does work though.
I never was able to figure out how to tie the "tree node menu item" functionality into the Ribbon (at the top of the SCCM console) so that is still on my TODO list.  
So, my advice to you is to start with the Microsoft example code (which I did) from the SCCM SDK and if you get compile time errors, look first for the SCCM assembly references (Microsoft.[ConfigurationManagement, ConfigurationManagement.ManagementProvider,
EnterpriseManagement.UI.Foundation, EnterpriseManagement.UI.WpfViews) and then at the WPF assembly references (PresentationCore, PresentationFramework) for missing class references.
I hope this information can help you.  Good luck sir! 
Anthony LaMark