C#, .NET, and Unit Testing
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From: Arne Vajhøj on 13 May 2010 19:20 On 13-05-2010 11:47, Peter Duniho wrote: > Mike Schilling wrote: >> [...] >> Version of VS are tied quite heavily to version of .NET. VS 2005 >> correspsonds to .NET 2.0; if you're using 3.x or anything newer, >> you'll need a more recent version of VS. > > That's mostly true. However, note that the .NET 3.0 and 3.5 SDKs were > usable with VS2005. Officially supported? > There is, at least for now, no .NET 4.0 SDK as far as I can tell. So for > .NET 4.0 features, VS2010 is required. It's theoretically possible they > will release a .NET 4.0 SDK though that can be used to enable .NET 4 > development in VS2008 (or maybe even VS2005!). What is needed in the SDK? The compiler comes with the framework! SharpDevelop, NAnt etc. works with just the framework. Arne
From: Mike Schilling on 13 May 2010 19:24 Arne Vajh�j wrote: > On 13-05-2010 02:42, Mike Schilling wrote: >> Is there only one NUnit now? At the time I needed one (back in >> 2002 or so), there were about four at SourceForge. I picked the one >> that looked like it had had the most work done on it, and it was >> fine. > > I have never seen other than http://www.nunit.org/ ! Hmm. I wonder whether that's the same one. I'll have to take a look sometime.
From: Arne Vajhøj on 13 May 2010 19:26 On 13-05-2010 02:44, Mike Schilling wrote: > Arne Vajh�j wrote: >> On 12-05-2010 20:24, grasp06110 wrote: >>> I am in an unfortunate situation where I need to work on a C# project >>> for a while. We are using Visual Studio 2005. The code I need to >>> work on is a C# desktop application with no unit testing what so >>> ever. >>> >>> Is there anyone out there that has made this transition? What are >>> the best bits of advice you can offer someone who is going through >>> it? Specifically, what tools would you recommend for Unit Testing? For >>> an IDE? Am I hopelessly tied to what every my company is willing to >>> pay for wrt what IDE I use? I miss Eclipse more than words can tell. >> >> Possible IDE's: >> - Visual Studio (Express Edition is free, the rest cost money) >> - SharpDevelop (open source, I like it !) >> - Eclipse with Emonic C# plugin >> >> Unit testing: >> - the one that comes with the expensive versions of VS >> - NUunit which is a relative direct port of JUnit >> >> Other tools that may make you feel at home: >> - log4net >> - nant > > ANT also has tasks to build .NET apps. This is very handy for a combined > .NET/Java build. Is that what is now moved over in: http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/dotnet/ ? Arne
From: Mike Schilling on 13 May 2010 21:27 Arne Vajh�j wrote: > On 13-05-2010 02:44, Mike Schilling wrote: >> Arne Vajh�j wrote: >>> On 12-05-2010 20:24, grasp06110 wrote: >>>> I am in an unfortunate situation where I need to work on a C# >>>> project for a while. We are using Visual Studio 2005. The code I >>>> need to work on is a C# desktop application with no unit testing >>>> what so ever. >>>> >>>> Is there anyone out there that has made this transition? What are >>>> the best bits of advice you can offer someone who is going through >>>> it? Specifically, what tools would you recommend for Unit Testing? >>>> For an IDE? Am I hopelessly tied to what every my company is >>>> willing to pay for wrt what IDE I use? I miss Eclipse more than >>>> words can tell. >>> >>> Possible IDE's: >>> - Visual Studio (Express Edition is free, the rest cost money) >>> - SharpDevelop (open source, I like it !) >>> - Eclipse with Emonic C# plugin >>> >>> Unit testing: >>> - the one that comes with the expensive versions of VS >>> - NUunit which is a relative direct port of JUnit >>> >>> Other tools that may make you feel at home: >>> - log4net >>> - nant >> >> ANT also has tasks to build .NET apps. This is very handy for a >> combined .NET/Java build. > > Is that what is now moved over in: > http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/dotnet/ > ? That looks to be it, yes.
From: Arne Vajhøj on 13 May 2010 22:04
On 13-05-2010 21:27, Mike Schilling wrote: > Arne Vajh�j wrote: >> On 13-05-2010 02:44, Mike Schilling wrote: >>> Arne Vajh�j wrote: >>>> On 12-05-2010 20:24, grasp06110 wrote: >>>>> I am in an unfortunate situation where I need to work on a C# >>>>> project for a while. We are using Visual Studio 2005. The code I >>>>> need to work on is a C# desktop application with no unit testing >>>>> what so ever. >>>>> >>>>> Is there anyone out there that has made this transition? What are >>>>> the best bits of advice you can offer someone who is going through >>>>> it? Specifically, what tools would you recommend for Unit Testing? >>>>> For an IDE? Am I hopelessly tied to what every my company is >>>>> willing to pay for wrt what IDE I use? I miss Eclipse more than >>>>> words can tell. >>>> >>>> Possible IDE's: >>>> - Visual Studio (Express Edition is free, the rest cost money) >>>> - SharpDevelop (open source, I like it !) >>>> - Eclipse with Emonic C# plugin >>>> >>>> Unit testing: >>>> - the one that comes with the expensive versions of VS >>>> - NUunit which is a relative direct port of JUnit >>>> >>>> Other tools that may make you feel at home: >>>> - log4net >>>> - nant >>> >>> ANT also has tasks to build .NET apps. This is very handy for a >>> combined .NET/Java build. >> >> Is that what is now moved over in: >> http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/dotnet/ >> ? > > That looks to be it, yes. If it is a combined build and one does not need more functionality than what it has, then I am sure it is handy. Arne |