Comments on: Silverlight unit test framework download for Silverlight 2 Beta 2

By: Michael Sync » Unity for Silverlight, Two Samples and Test Projects are on Codeplex now.

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:37:59 +0000

[...] You can download that framework and Visual Studio 2008 template for Silverlight Unit Test from this link. If you are very new to SIlverlight Unit Testing, please take a look this [...]

By: Elisabeth Boonin

Elisabeth Boonin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:02:23 +0000

Hi, I’m just playing with this for the first time and I’m finding the referenced instructions for wiring up the RootVisual require an additional cast to UIElement. It’s no big deal, but it makes me think I’ve got a version mismatch or something.

Here’s what the walkthrough gives:
this.RootVisual = UnitTestSystem.CreateTestPage(this);

but that gives a compiler error… instead I cast the right hand side to (UIElement).

By: Robin Stewart

Robin Stewart — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:32:06 +0000

Thanks for the framework, and I would like to echo Valerie’s dilemma, my templates are not showing up either, and I am on the C# root. I only see the option to search for an online template. Like Valerie I exited and restarted VS. I also copied the file into the language files under \ProjectTemplates\ and \ItemTemplates\ (in case that was the issue) with no luck.

By: Jeff Wilcox

Jeff Wilcox — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:46:47 +0000

Jasonlan,
I think that most of the teams are “heads down” focusing on getting Silverlight 2 ready, and that there won’t be a complete release of the tests for beta 2.

That said, the WatermarkedTextBox for Beta 2 is available on Kathy Kam’s blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/kathykam/archive/2008/06/23/watermarkedtextbox-for-silverlight-2-beta-2.aspx) and includes the unit tests for that control as well, and may be of interest to you.

-Jeff

By: Jason Schluter

Jason Schluter — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:41:11 +0000

Hello Jeff,

Any ETA on a silverlight controls test suite update for Silverlight 2.0 beta 2?

Thank You,

Jasonlan

By: Miguel

Miguel — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:58:39 +0000

I was just about to post on the same subject.

Options
To run your tests using Ctrl F5 (or Start Without Debugging), but you would probably want to debug other tests.

Disable Break when a User-unhandled exception is thrown (Ctrl-D-E) or Debug@@>Exceptions. Of course you would probably want to find out if other exceptions are thrown. One option is to let the test fail and then add a breakpoint to debug it.

Other option is to change Application_UnhandledException in app.xaml.cs, here you could add logic to check if this was about an expected exception, I dont think it would be an easy topic, I’m thinking about inspecting the stacktrace, if you dont mind hardcoding it that could be a solution.

I hope than once this Unit Testing Fx is integrated in VS we would have a better experience. The framework could easily (I guess) detect if an unhandled exception is thrown and this was inside a method with the ExceptedExceptionAttribute and then check if that’s the proper exception and mark it as handled. That would be something similar to what we could do on Application_UnhandledException method, but there is hard to know inside which TestMethod the exception was thrown.

By: justin chase

justin chase — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:28:59 +0000

I have added the [ExpectedException] to some of my test methods but when I throw the exception from within my code visual studio will break on the exception and say “Unhandled exception thrown from user code”. Continuing on behaves as normally and the tests succeeds but I’d really like it if visual studio would not break on these exceptions. Is there any way to prevent this without disabling my ability to break on unintended unhandled exceptions?

By: Miguel

Miguel — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:57:49 +0000

I went with the InternalsVisible, I guess is the way to do it in SL.

About the build’s support I saw is on your todo list.

Thanks

By: Miguel

Miguel — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:22:38 +0000

Jeff,

This framework is great. Do you have any guidance to include it as part of an MSBuild?

We have shared code between SL and the Full Fx and we also want to share Testing code, but we have problems with the private accessors, do you have any idea around this topic?

Thanks in advance.
Miguel