Video walkthrough of the Silverlight 2 control unit tests

Posted March 20th 2008 to MIX, Silverlight, Testing, Video

A few weeks back at MIX’08 I took along my $150 Aiptek A-HD camera with the intention of shooting some quick video footage while at MIX and using it to start learning Expression Encoder.  It was a success!  Instead of a thorough trip report, I’m going to walk you through the control source download quickly.

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In this video I introduce the control source and unit test announcement from MIX, and then walk you through:

  • exploring the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 control source code, unit test and unit test framework download
  • using Visual Studio 2008 to run the control unit tests
  • adding the Exclusive attribute to narrow the test(s) that run in the browser when analyzing tests
  • running the tests in Firefox
  • running the tests in Expression Blend 2.5

I hope you find this useful, I’m planning on screencasting a more in-depth look at the test framework in the future.  I’ll try and enunciate a little better next time, the audio could have been clearer.

Speaking of video, don’t forget that all of the sessions for the MIX conference are online at http://sessions.visitmix.com/.

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12 Comments

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  1. futureturnip
    March 21st, 2008 | 6:55 am

    Great little post. Really enjoyed the format and the content!

  2. Unit Testing with Silverlight - ScottGu's Blog
    April 2nd, 2008 | 1:23 am

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  3. Brent Strange
    April 2nd, 2008 | 11:10 am

    Awesome Jeff! Show me more! Show me more!

    Seriously, I’ve been patiently waiting for a good solution for SilverLight testing automation. Exciting stuff…

    Thanks.

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    April 2nd, 2008 | 3:48 pm

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    April 8th, 2008 | 7:40 pm

    [...] para testes neste post do Expression Blend feito no último mês. Você pode ainda assistir a este vídeo post que Jeff criou onde é realizado um passo-a-passo através do framework de testes unitários e dos [...]

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    April 9th, 2008 | 5:40 pm

    [...] para testes neste post do Expression Blend feito no último mês. Você pode ainda assistir a este vídeo post que Jeff criou onde é realizado um passo-a-passo através do framework de testes unitários e dos [...]

  7. Thibaut Barrère
    April 10th, 2008 | 1:03 am

    Hi Jeff,

    thanks for sharing this, it’s a very useful introduction to this testing framework.

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    April 16th, 2008 | 7:06 am

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  9. Alan Cobb
    May 4th, 2008 | 10:41 am

    I’m really impressed with your HD video image quality. It really makes most other screen casts look inferior.

    Alan Cobb

  10. Bryan Reynolds
    June 30th, 2008 | 3:29 pm

    Can you automate these tests?

  11. David Ei
    November 29th, 2008 | 7:39 pm

    Where is the video? I’d really like to watch it.

  12. Jeff Wilcox
    November 30th, 2008 | 2:38 pm

    The video player has been updated to use a Silverlight 2 video player now.