The first barrier i ran into is that the typical way of creating unit tests create a dll, reference nunit and your assembly to test, doesnt work, since you cant mix silverlight assemblies with. Old versions of the silverlight plugin for mac os x have been added to the firefox addon blocklist. Initially ported from junit, the current production release, version 3, has been completely rewritten with many new features and support for a wide range of. Nunit silverlight 3 nunit is a unittesting framework for all. There are many advantages for unit testing silverlight with typemock isolator. Silverlight not working in macosx high sierra apple. Up until now, it was not possible to isolate silverlight code in tests. In summary you now have 3 options when testing silverlight projects. Follow the steps below to install the silverlight plugin on your mac computer. Unit testing silverlight with selenium july 31, 07 comments 9 posted in programming silverlight.
Net based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the web. If youre using visual studio for mac the nunit templates extension cant be used. Silverlight is the browser plugin that allows you to watch tv shows and movies on your computer. Silverlight for mac is not being recognized or you are continually.
Open the downloads page and doubleclick on silverlight. For integration testing within the context of a browser you can use the silverlight testing framework. I havent been able to find a version of nunit that has been built to work with the silverlight 5 runtime. Click here for a guide on how to resolve streaming issues with mac os x mavericks in the safari browser. Nov 30, 2016 trying to use directv now but will not play on my mac mini 2012. Download and install the latest version microsoft silverlight plug in for your browser.
You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. When designing the silverlight unit test framework, it became clear that there were three or four distinct test engine components that could be combined into a single test system. Jan 29, 2011 my team is working on a silverlight project for the last three months. It keeps saying i need to install the silverlight plugin so i did. Silverlight for mac is not being recognized or you are continually prompted to install. Oct 12, 2016 microsoft silverlight is a crossbrowser, crossplatform plugin for delivering the next generation of. For spelunking individual methods inside the coreclr you can use test with silverlight. Automated silverlight 5 unit testing for business logic. I have downloaded silverlight and installed it and it still wont work,i tried to download again and it says already exsistswhat should i do now. Mozilla firefox click the tools drop down menu and select. The silverlight unit test adapter can be extended by using plugins. While the corpoarate standard is nunit, they are open to other options as there arent any other teams doing silverlight work.
Net framework and compatible with multiple browsers, devices and operating systems, bringing a new level of interactivity wherever the web works. These releases are needed by many people for legacy work, so we keep them around for download. Toegang tot rijke webinhoud met animaties en video. Jul 02, 2015 silverlight is a free plugin, powered by the.
My question doesnt fit any of the provided forum options, so ive slotted it into the only mac related area. For unit testing you can create a silverlight nunit project and use the usual testdriven. Silverunit does not require that you run your tests inside the silverlight runtime. It supports fast, costeffective delivery of highquality video to all major browsers running on mac os or windows os. A few weeks ago aaron brazell mentioned on twitter that he had been unable to run. Aug 14, 2009 this feature is not available right now. Apr 16, 2018 locate the install silverlight area in the lowerright part of the window. Only the framework and a small runner program are installed.
Forms as nuget dependencies to the newly created projects. One of the important capabilities we shipped with the beta1 release of silverlight 2 was a unit test harness that enables you to perform both apilevel and uilevel unit testing. If you are running an intel processor, click mac runtime next to silverlight 3. Visual studio marketplace extensions for visual studio. Silverlight for mac is not being recognized or you are. This guide assumes that you have a solution with either a pcl or a shared project and a number of platform specific projects. The type or namespace name typenamespace could not be found are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference.
But in order to use it, youll need to change the app. Silverlight is a powerful development tool for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for web and mobile applications. It not only creates the stubs for the tests, it extracts the the documentation youve already written for your properties and methods. Were currently doing a good bit of dhtml goodness that needs to run in all the platforms. The microsoft silverlight unit test framework microsoft. The preferred way to download nunit is through the nuget package manager. Moq is a library that assists with running unit tests by providing easily mocked objects that implement interfaces and abstract classes. Unofficial silverlight unit testing framework package. Locate the install silverlight area in the lowerright part of the window. But now, thanks to silverunit, built on top of typemock isolator, it is possible to test silverlight with ease. Current dev tools, including the vsts do not support running tests in the traditional way. Aug 08, 2012 unity is a dependency injection container. A type or namespace that is used in the program was not found.
The app was working correctly, however a fter upgrading to macosx high sierra, if we try to import photos from the library we receive an exception. May 17, 2012 in some cases, the microsoft silverlight plugin may need to be deleted and reinstalled for proper function of workspace. The nunitlite approach provides a way to run nunit tests without a full install of the nunit runner and test engine assemblies. I understand that vs for mac is a totally different beast to vs in windows, but im struggling to run my nunit web driver tests within the mac version.
I can see how a testing framework that could easily interact with silverlight would be a useful thing, so i set off to prove the concept. Im not married to a particular framework, but corporate seems to be most open to nunit or mstest. Note that this is currently the only way to run tests under silverlight. Initially ported from junit, the current production release, version 3.
There is a distribution for silverlight, and in this post ill focus on some ways to use moq for some more. Using moq with silverlight for advanced unit tests moq is a library that assists with running unit tests by providing easily mocked objects that implement interfaces and abstract classes. It is fullfeatured, with support for instance and type interception and custom extensions. Our team is using silverlight 5 for development as it has features we require going forward. Discover and install extensions and subscriptions to create the dev environment you need. First, i made a supersimple xaml of a textblock and a circle. Jun 14, 2017 if youre using visual studio for mac the nunit templates extension cant be used. Im trying to get silverlight to work on mac os x, any browser would do. After the download is completed, installation should start automatically. Monodevelop enables developers to quickly write desktop and web applications on. You can run your regular nunit or mstest tests only in. To determine the version, click to select the file.
When a silverlight dialog box opens, select install now. Follow the troubleshooting steps below to resolve the issue. Silverlight home page prepare for silverlight 5 end of support after october 2021. This testing harness is cross browser and cross platform, and can be used to quickly run and verify automated unit tests.
One place for all extensions for visual studio, azure devops services, azure devops server and visual studio code. Bugs are accepted on older releases only if they can be reproduced on a current release. Plugins can be used to manipulate the test results as a way to workaround some of the limitations when running unit tests in silverlight. For one, we have the silverlight unit test framework. Microsoft designed silverlight with the ability to deliver highfidelity experiences on the broadest set of system configurations. Heres that money project running on os xsafari, via the silverlight unit test framework and nunit. Blocking old versions of silverlight on mac os x mozilla. Note that this is currently the only way to run tests under silverlight 5. Instructions for uninstalling previous versions of silverlight from your macintosh computer. Nunit features a fluent assert syntax, parameterized, generic and theory tests and is userextensible. The solution may be as simple as opening safari then opening preferences under the security icon open plugin settings button, check to see if the silverlight icon is checked, if it is not check the box and then try opening the application or website that uses silverlight. Microsoft silverlight is a crossbrowser, crossplatform plugin for delivering the next generation of.
I have discovered that nunit doesnt work as standard as it isnt silverlight and that the tools available for silverlight testing appear to primarily be aimed at running. It works really well, but were now planning to move to silverlight 5. Using moq with silverlight for advanced unit tests. How to use silverlight directv now macrumors forums. Testing is a simple, extensible unit testing solution for rich silverlight 2 applications, controls and class libraries. Out of the box, it works with nunit and microsofts visual studio unit testing framework henceforth mstest for brevity for. Im about halfway through roy osheroves unit testing book, so im getting a feel for writing tests in general. Enabling silverlight is necessary in order to run quickflix on your web browser.
Net languages, and supports qunit and jasmine for javascript. Resharper plugins for unit testing mspec, and silverlight. Jan 21, 20 silverlight support is provided by agunit, which enables running and debugging your unit tests in silverlight projects, and of course handles the silverlight test frameworks asynchronousattribute. We recently developed both ios and android apps for our company, so purchaced a mac for dev and testing purposes. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. One of the first issues we encountered was unit testing for the silverlight libraries. How to download and install silverlight for mac youtube. In visual studio, from the tools menu, select nuget package. Microsoft is using a provider model to this framework which enables third party unit testing frameworks to inject there own runner. Im not getting much success at all so far, nor help from the web. Silverlight issues on mac os x mavericks in safari browser.
I recently tried writing some unit tests for a silverlight 4 project. Oct 07, 20 prem tinsulanonda international school how to download and install silverlight on a mac. Oplossing voor niet werkende microsoft silverlight. If youre constantly being prompted to upgrade silverlight when you try to watch netflix on your mac computer, it typically points to an outdated browser plugin. We did this because these versions of the plugin are causing instability in firefox, including crashing on popular sites such as hotmail.
Prem tinsulanonda international school how to download and install silverlight on a mac. Its also necessary to add a reference to the shared test project containing the tests. To execute one or more unit tests you should use run tests rather than test with silverlight. Getting started in visual studio for mac nunitdocs wiki. Net cli packagereference paket cli installpackage silverlighttoolkittesting version 5. Unit testing silverlight with selenium scott hanselman. You might have forgotten to reference reference the assembly that contains the type, or you might not have added the required using directive. This tutorial will show users how to properly delete and reinstall the sil.
The nunit test generator creates nunit, microsoft unit tests, csunit, mbunit, and xunit tests using your vb. This runner can be nicely placed in your righthand side toolbox and will allow you to run unittests as easy as any other microsoft framework you might think of. Netflix is prompting me to upgrade silverlight on my mac. Visualiza contenidos web elaborados mediante esta tecnologia. The first barrier i ran into is that the typical way of creating unit tests create a dll, reference nunit and your assembly to test, doesnt work, since you cant mix silverlight assemblies with standard. How to uninstall and reinstall silverlight for mac mytalk.
In order for a silverlight test to run, it needed to be hosted inside a web page. Apr 02, 2008 in addition to supporting the above unit test harness and framework, we are also going to support ui automation apis with the final release of silverlight 2. Paths can be specified relative to the test assembly. The nunit test generator works with nunit to make your life easier. Nunit is run by the core team, rob prouse, charlie poole. These will enable accessibility scenarios allowing screen readers to work with silverlight and enable section 508 compliance of silverlight applications. Unit testing silverlight tutorial silverunit test typemock.