How do I add NUnit as a test framework option for ASP.NET MVC to Visual Web Developer 2008 Express?

Question

According to Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0, page 8, \"If you are using VS 2008 Standard Edition or Visual Web Developer 2008 Express you will need to download and instal

Answer 1

Thanks all that's great! I had a few wrinkles, because I only have MVC2 with VWD express 2010. So various things assumed in the earlier articles and pointers don't quite work out.

I made an outline for what helped me, starting with the base of: the templates and .CMD file in the "Updated NUnit Templates for ASP.Net MVC 1.0 RTM" article.

1. Back-up your registery
2. Unzip the nunitRTM.zip file from 1.
3. You can run the command file, it doesn't look for VWDexpress 2010; so look carefully to see how much you need to fix-up or do manually (see following steps)
4. Copy the template (.ZIP) files to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\VWDExpress\ProjectTemplates ... Csharp\test and VisualBasic\test
5. I made two registry update files: Csharp\NUnitExpress2010.reg and VisualBasic\NUnitExpress2010.reg; from the Csharp\NUnitExpress.reg and VisualBasic\NUnitExpress.reg files (respectively).
6. The main difference is the use registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft**VWDExpress****10.0****MVC2**\TestProjectTemplates
   Registry entry meanings are covered in: "ASP.NET MVC Test Framework Integration"
7. Update the reistry: regedit.exe /s "Visual Basic\NUnitExpress2010.reg" (e.g.)
8. Run set-up for Visual Web Designer: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\VWDExpress.exe" /setup
9. Fire-up VWD express and open a new project -- There were the nUnit templates.

I found it tedious, still persevere it will be worth it.