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

Have you installed the full .net 2.0 NUnit: http://www.nunit.org/index.php?p=download

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Edit: There's an easier solution below.

I got the Create Unit Test Project dialog working with NUnit and Visual Web Developer Express. I had to add an NUnit test template to the following location: %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\VWDExpress\ProjectTemplates\CSharp\Test\1033 (I had to create the Test\1033 subfolders).

Then I ran VWDExpress /setup per Craig Stuntz's recommendation (from %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE).

And it worked!

Note: I had previously added registry settings from here but applied them to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VWDExpress\9.0\MVC\TestProjectTemplates.

For your convenience, here are the differences from the ASP.NET MVC Test Framework Integration Walkthrough article:

Step 1. Copy the template zip files to %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\VWDExpress\ProjectTemplates\CSharp\Test\1033 (note the VWDExpress folder)

Step 2. Before merging the registry file(s), edit them to point to the appropriate location under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VWDExpress\9.0\MVC\TestProjectTemplates (note the VWDExpress key)

Step 4. Run VWDExpress /setup instead of devenv /setup