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I don't care if you're excited about the new MVC framework or if you're one of those people that are desensitized to the pain of WebForms, the fact that this graphic was in a blog post from ScottGu has to make any ALT.NET heart go pitter-patter:

All I'm excited about is the very idea that a Microsoft produced tool explicitly encourages unit testing (and acknowledges the existence of OSS tooling!).

Published Feb 12 2008, 04:40 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

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Jeremy D. Miller said:

Oh yeah, and they responded to early user feedback and made changes accordingly. I like the way Microsoft is running the MVC program.

# February 12, 2008 5:09 PM

jdn said:

Yeah, they got rid of the ControllerAction attribute. Vaguely remember some complaints about that.

# February 12, 2008 5:18 PM

Jeremy D. Miller said:

I wouldn't have called it a show stopper, but still, that much less code noise in the world

# February 12, 2008 5:20 PM

Sean Chambers said:

It is good to see that they are finally listening.

*insert tongue in cheek*

Now if they could only contribute to open source projects instead of recreating them in their own image

*remove tongue from cheek*

that may be asking too much this early on though =)

sorry. couldn't help it.

It is nice to see that they are finally listening to the community. I think at this point they really have no choice if they wish to retain a loyal following of users.

# February 12, 2008 5:22 PM

ActiveEngine Sensei said:

That's very cool - You can select your own testing platform. Wasn't this the company who did give a hang about the community wanted? They finally acknowledged that this other stuff exists.

# February 12, 2008 6:45 PM

Jan Van Ryswyck said:

That screenshot has so many dimensions. I'm staring at it all morning. I would like that they put MS Test as the last option in the drop-down list, but that's just me being picky :-). Never thought I'd see the day that Microsoft acknowledges open-source software. An historic moment people!

# February 13, 2008 1:39 AM

Andy Stopford said:

I've not heard anything about a MbUnit provider but both Phil and Rob are fans so I expect this is already done :)

# February 13, 2008 3:23 AM

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# February 13, 2008 8:15 AM

Scott said:

The question is, can you plug your own testing framework into that dialog or are the values in the drop down box hard coded?

# February 13, 2008 10:34 AM

Scott said:

Oh duh, I just RTFB more carefully.

"The ASP.NET MVC test framework wizard is pluggable and will enable custom unit test project templates to be added to its list of supported test options:"

# February 13, 2008 10:38 AM

Jeremy D. Miller said:

@Scott,

This is the part where I say "Perfect is the enemy of the Good"

It's not that hard to just set up your own project with whatever you want like we've done for 5+ years.

# February 13, 2008 10:39 AM

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Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#.

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