I started playing with .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 over the weekend. I quickly came to an interesting problem however. I switched a while ago on .NET 3.5 to using xUnit.NET instead of NUnit or the unit testing in Visual Studio 2008. I like to redistribute my test suites with my products as a support aid for end-users that are using my applications. Since I can’t redistribute the Visual Studio testing assemblies, I prefer the open source frameworks. But the problem that I quickly discovered was that neither xUnit.NET or NUnit supported .NET 4.0 yet, which is completely understandable. I figured out a couple of configuration changes that could be applied though to get unit tests to work and run in the .NET 4.0 runtime. More...

In my previous post, I went into more detail about the NSObject class. NSObject is the root class of the Objective-C object model. In this post, I’m going to explore the NSObject class a little deeper and look at the description, isEqual, and hash methods. More...

I’ve posted on this before, but you can never post too much about test-driven development and unit testing. While I try to do unit testing and code coverage on my projects, I have run into a project that I rolled off of recently where I couldn’t do as much testing as I wanted to. Unit testing was a constant criticism among the team members, and it would have been nice to have more unit tests. But in the end it all comes down to an economic principle known as scarcity. More...