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Archives for February 2008

Typemock and .NET 1.1

Although we still have many developers using Typemock in .NET 1.1, now that .NET 3.5 is out, we are going to drop the support for .NET 1.1. in our next version.
Version 4.2 will be the last version to support .NET 1.1. This will allow us to support better .NET 2.0+ features and support better type-safe […]

27 February 2008 | Product, Release | No Comments

Typemock Isolator 4.2 is released

We have released version 4.2 of Typemock Isolator, now with more features that enable shorter development cycles, higher quality of production code, better tested and more stable software components.
Typemock Isolator V4.2 introduces support of the new .NET 3.5 framework as well as Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008. Version 4.2 has an improved IDE integration based […]

27 February 2008 | Release | No Comments

Typemock and Design Issues

The new field mock feature that enables developers to mock fields has raised the questions:

Who needs to mock fields, (only bad programmers)?
Does Typemock advocate bad design?
Is Typemock too powerful?

Advocating Good Design
Well, lets get one thing straight. I do advocate good design, the design of the software is an important factor and one that I spend a […]

7 February 2008 | Uncategorized, Reviews | No Comments

Decorator feature enhancement

[Cross Posted in TypeMock Insider Blog]
Typemock-Isolator has a little know Decorator feature that allows developers to simply add capabilities to their test framework (all test framework).
Using this feature Typemock-Isolator creates the [VerifyMocks] decorator that automatically verifies the mocks at the end of your tests.
To create a custom decorator simply extend the DecoratorAttribute and […]

7 February 2008 | .NET Tests | No Comments

Tips and Tricks

I am happy to announce that we have opened a Typemock Blog The blog will host posts from Typemock developers and will give inside information and tip and tricks.
Lior Friedman has already posted a explanation of the difference between Mock and MockObject

Bookmark at:          

7 February 2008 | .NET Tests | No Comments

Typemock Isolator - Beta - Better Community

The Typemock team has released our next version of TypeMock.NET.
We are calling it Typemock-Isolator. As Typemock helps developers Isolate their code from the rest of the system and make it Testable.
The main reason behind this are our plans to create more tools that will help simplify writing unit tests.
The Brain-Storming sessions behind this name where […]

6 February 2008 | Product, Release | 2 Comments