In an interview earlier this year with MSDN geekSpeak, I discussed unit testing for Silverlight and some of the frameworks that are available. One audience member raised a very important question: ''How do we test the XAML?'' Specifically, what happens when we hand off XAML to a designer or another developer, and they accidently remove a ...

By now, you probably are aware that you can dynamically load XAP files using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) within your Silverlight applications. Have you been scratching your head, however, and wondering how on earth you would actually test something like that? It is possible, and here's a quick post to show one way you can. First, ...

The Silverlight team recently posted a blog entry entitled ''Vancouver Olympics - How'd we do That?'' in which they detailed the massive effort across multiple partners to pull together the on-line solution for streaming HD videos, both live and on demand. This was an exciting post for Wintellect and me because it detailed the effort we ...

Moq is a library that assists with running unit tests by providing easily mocked objects that implement interfaces and abstract classes. You can learn more about Moq on their website. There is a distribution for Silverlight, and in this post I'll focus on some ways to use Moq for some more involved testing scenarios. Download the source code for ...

One concern with the Silverlight Unit Testing Framework is that it runs on a UI thread and requires a browser to function. This makes it difficult to integrate into automated or continuous integration testing. Difficult, but not impossible. A solution is provided by the project called StatLight which not only supports Silverlight testing ...