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.NN #17: MSTEST ExpectedException Attribute

This post has been sitting in my draft folder for a while. At my client we use the Visual Studio Team Suite set of products, which means we also use MSTest for unit testing. I’m not going to get into MSTest vs. XUnit vs. NUnit vs. MbUnit, but I do have a comment about the implementation of the ExpectedException attribute from MSTest. Let’s say that I have some code that can throw a series of the same exception.

Why Intellisense is a Must

Matt Winkle has a humorous post regarding the length of Type names in the .NET Framework. This just proves two things to me: Intellisense rocks! I can no longer jibe Levy for the length of his type names. This reminds me of another little (useless) factoid I’ve been meaning to blog about. While digging into the ADO.NET code with reflector (can’t really recall why) Levy and I came across what must be the greatest method name in the framework: DoomThisConnection().

Andy Erickson chronicles CODODN

Check out Andy’s great clips of the Central Ohio Day of .NET. If you made it you might recognize some things, if you didn’t make it, see what you missed! Thanks Andy!