Everything works OK after serious changes:

- all components, componentCfg-s and parameter providers use base classes
 - less boilerplate code, simpler access to test/procedure parameters from code
 - CreateTestParams(test), CreateProcedureParams(procedure) methods added
 - TestBenchSim class is made static, it is not inheritted by any device anymore

TestBenchFramework/BenchControl/BenchId/Component.cs

@@ -2,33 +2,28 @@
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Xml.Serialization;
 using log4net;
+using TBF.Entities;
 using TBF.BenchControl;
+using TBF.BenchControl.Generic;
 
 namespace TBF.BenchControl.BenchId
 {
 	/// <summary>
 	/// Holds information identifying the test bench.
 	/// </summary>
-	public class Component : ComponentBase, Generic.IComponent
+	public class Component : ComponentBase
 	{
         private static readonly ILog log = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(Component));
-        public override string ToString()
-        {
-            return string.Format("BenchId: Name={0}, TestBenchNr={1}", benchIdCfg.Name, TestBenchNr);
-        }
+		public override string ToString() { return string.Format("BenchId({0})", Cfg.ToString(1)); }
 
         readonly ComponentCfg benchIdCfg;
 
-		public static void ResetStaticProperties() { }
-
 		public int TestBenchNr { get { return benchIdCfg.TestBenchNr; } }
 
 		public Component(ComponentCfg cfg)
 			: base(cfg)
 		{
-			if (cfg == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("cfg");
-			this.benchIdCfg = cfg;
-
+			benchIdCfg = cfg;
             log.Debug(this.ToString());
         }
 	}

TestBenchFramework/BenchControl/BenchId/ComponentCfg.cs

@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ namespace TBF.BenchControl.BenchId
 	{
 		public int TestBenchNr;
 
-		/// Parameterless constructor, sets default values
-		public ComponentCfg()
+		/// Private parameterless constructor invoked by all other (public) constructors
+		ComponentCfg()
 		{
             Name = "Bench-ID";
             ParentName = string.Empty;

TestBenchFramework/BenchControl/BenchId/ComponentFactory.cs

@@ -6,10 +6,6 @@ namespace TBF.BenchControl.BenchId
 	public class ComponentFactory : IComponentFactory
 	{
 		public string ClassName { get { return "Bench-ID"; } }
-		public bool HasProcedureParams { get { return false; } }
-		public bool HasTestParams { get { return false; } }
-		public IParamsProvider GetTestParams(Entities.ComponentTest testParams) { return null; }
-		public IParamsProvider GetProcedureParams(Entities.ComponentProcedure procedureParams) { return null; }
 
 		/// <summary>Max. number of components of this class in the system</summary>
 		public int MaxCount { get { return int.MaxValue; } }