Comments on: Unit Testing with Silverlight 2

By: John wang

John wang — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:57:53 +0000

Hi Jeff,
Thanks very much for your awesome toturial.
After i following your UI test, i got the following error:
I don’t know how to fix it, does any body can help me?
Thanks in advance!

Error 2 ‘ChatClient.Page’ does not contain a definition for ‘MessageTextBox’ and no extension method ‘MessageTextBox’ accepting a first argument of type ‘ChatClient.Page’ could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) C:\Project\sliverLight_test\ChatClient\Test\ClientTest.cs

By: John wang

John wang — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:34:02 +0000

Hi Jeff,
After some investigation in the internet, i haven’t found a tool which is support for Silverlight UI testing.
Is the unit Test Framework support UI testing,not only record and reply? Is it only use the method you described? Wire the related code to simulate the end user in brower?

thanks very much in advance.
-John

By: John wang

John wang — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:33:42 +0000

By: David Wynne's Blog : Getting Started with the Silverlight Unit Test Framework RC0

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:01:40 +0000

[...] this is your first look at the framework, then Jeff’s post from March is a really good introduction to the top level benefits offered. That post was written for [...]

By: dwynne

dwynne — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:16:28 +0000

Jeff,
Just echo’ing E’s question – is it possible to keep resources in App.xaml?

By: Amit

Amit — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:01:05 +0000

Hi Jeff .
Thanks for the blog posts and the video.
This looks like a valueable tool.
One issue – I used option 2 (installing the template) and app.xaml.cs has 2 build errors out of the box :
1.’InitializeComponent’ does not exist in the current context
2.Cannot implicitly convert type ‘System.Windows.DependencyObject’ to ‘System.Windows.UIElement’. in the line : “this.RootVisual = UnitTestSystem.CreateTestPage(this);” .

I commented out the ‘InitializeComponent’ call and casted the dependency object to a UI element . I wonder if I did something wrong on the way ?

Thanks
Amit

By: Iva

Iva — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:28:16 +0000

Hi Jeff,
You mentioned that it’s possible to generate TRX files for the runs. Can you explain a bit more on how I can get these enabled for my tests?

Thanks.

By: E

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:28:59 +0000

Jeff,

Thanks for this awesome tutorial. Quick question.

Is there a way to keep resources (messagehistory and sendbutton) in App.xaml instead of moving theminto Page.xaml and still get unit test to work?

Thank you!

By: sladapter

sladapter — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:47:07 +0000

Jeff,

Never mind. I figured it out. I added another Silverlight link for this test project to my web project. Now service call is working.

By: sladapter

sladapter — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:11:34 +0000

Jeff,

Thanks for the tutorial. But I have one question.

When I hit F5 to start the Test Project, the Test is running under file system (the url is c:\myprojectFolder\bin\Debug\TestPage.html) instead of Dev Server or IIS. All my Web Service calls are failing because of this. Is there anyway to solve this problem?

Thanks!

By: Jeff Wilcox

Jeff Wilcox — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:21:12 +0000

@Neil (58), if they’re public members I see no reason this would not work. Do you get a compile error, or something entirely different?

By: SDLC Progress - From the software development trenches

SDLC Progress - From the software development trenches — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:06:58 +0000

[...] have just started using the Microsoft Silverlight Testing framework for our client side UI tests and the idea is to integrate this into the build process for the next [...]

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:29:54 +0000

Is there a way to get at the members if they are defined with in a class that you are testing? I have tired setting the variable to public and internal neither appear to work.

Thank you in advance for your responses.

By: Ricky

Ricky — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:36:58 +0000

Thank you Jeff for fixing my problem; Ricky.

By: Jeff Wilcox

Jeff Wilcox — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:25:54 +0000

@crystal9152,
Thanks for the feedback… I’ve tried to keep the tutorial rather generic, but I probably could have done better including VB content.

There is some VB content here: the VB test example above and the VB templates for testing at http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2008/06/06/unit-testing-templates-for-microsoft-silverlight-2-beta-2/.