I complained in my recent Microsoft mypopia post that Microsoft had failed to support the main unit testing framework inside Visual Studio.
Happily, I’ve found a solution in the form of a Visual Studio add-in called TestDriven.NET. Now I can execute and debug my NUnit tests all from inside Visual Studio. 
Just need a bit of wallet surgery first. 
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Hi Jack,
I recall the stories about Jamie Cansdale and TestDriven from a year or so ago… Microsoft almost – I guess – took him to the cleaners because the plugin he was giving away made the Express edition of VS as good as the cost-option…
He didn’t really do anything wrong and they scrapped his Most Important Partner status or whatever it was and the legal letters were all over the ‘net for a while.
If you have time do a bit of digging – it was a fascinating read and showed just what a bunch of total bas***ds M$ really are.
Cheers
Al
If they didn’t want the Express version to support add-ins, why didn’t they remove the feature from their software? Weird.
Having now gone and read all of the emails and letters…Microsoft could have short-circuited the process very easily by telling Jamie Cansdale exactly which clauses he was supposed to be in breach of. I’m currently writing some .NET open source code and episodes such as this hardly help with your motivation. At least they could never hold out a MVP over my head because I would *never* accept it in the first place…reminds me of the red & black points they handed out at school if you were naughty or good respectively. Strange how baubles like that motivate some people.
“… Microsoft could have short-circuited the process very easily by telling Jamie Cansdale exactly which clauses he was supposed to be in breach of.”
Just like telling the FOSS world which Patents Linux, OOo and the rest are infringing. But of course that would never do. They’d either be found to be crap patents (which in the case of US patent law would be my guess) or the FOSS community would re-write the infringing bits before Brad Smith could say Richard Stallman!.
BTW, if you are interested, RMS is speaking in Manchester on Thursday evening… We are going up for it.
Won’t being in the same room as RMS infect all of my code with the GPL?
lol
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