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Saturday, April 29, 2006

TestDriven.NET doesn't execute NUnit Test Setup in VS2005

This kind of bit me in the bud for a while here at home, so I thought I would throw this out in case any others are having the same problem. The symptom was even though I had a setup method decorded with the "SetUp" NUnit attribute, the method wasn't being executed by TestDriven.NET.

Luckily, I don't believe this is an issue with TestDriven.NET as it as an unfortunate side effect with the new C# class templates in VS2005. By default, when you create a new class in VS2005 (at least for me), the class is simply declared as "class MyClass" rather than "public class MyClass". That is what is causing the failure. Once you change the scope of the class to be public, TestDriven.NET will now start running the Setup method as expected.

When you think about it the behavior makes sense. But it is frustrating nonetheless :).

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Saturday, April 29, 2006 3:12:33 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

This is incredibly annoying from VS.
I keep forgetting to do this.

Ayende Rahien

Saturday, April 29, 2006 8:35:24 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Ayende, you can correct this yourself if you want to :). If you go into the following folder, you will find a zip file containing the template used when create a new class file in C#: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\1033" (in a default installation for Visual Studio 2005). Change the .cs template file in the zip file to include the word "public" if you wish (I also have mine including the CPL license header for my public works), and delete the extracted zip from the "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache\CSharp\1033" folder. Upon restart, VS2005 will re-extract the zip file with your new template and you shouldn't have to worry about it anymore :).

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