unit testing vb.net in VS2010 express

Question

What are some easy and simple unit testing frameworks to use with Visual Studio 2010 Express vb.net?

Are there any good tutorials geared towards this?

Answer 1

It may not be true anymore, but previous versions of VS Express weren't able to install any plugins. This meant that you couldn't use the integrated test-runners, but that's really not that big of a deal.

Worst case is that you use VS to write your tests and compile both, then manually run your tests using their testrunner external to VS. The most common unit-testing platform for .NET is nUnit which includes a standalone test runner.

Answer 2

You can certainly install nUnit for VS 2010 Express C# (I just tried this out this morning), so I would think you could for VB. The link is a tutorial/demo for VS Express 2008, but it worked in my Express 2010 -- again, C#.

I also found a older tutorial using nUnit and VS 2005 Express VB

See also:

• Is it possible to integrate NUnit with VB.net Express Edition? Which is the best way?
• Best way to do TDD in express versions of visual studio(eg VB Express)

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