Walkthrough: The power of the November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit testing tools
The November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit is essentially a tools and infrastructure release on top of the October 2009 release (where we first introduced Visual Studio 2010 support). It also adds a Silverlight 4 Beta version.
New infrastructure & test tools ship in the Silverlight Toolkit
There is a lot in the release that is joining publicly for the first time, based on some of the internal tools and utilities that we use in building and testing the Silverlight Toolkit, plus things we’d like to have as typical Silverlight developers.
These tools join in the Experimental quality band, and over the next few posts, I’ll dig into the details. This post is a literal walkthrough of how you could go about seeing all the utilities in the meantime.
One important thing to call out is that, as an initial release, there are definitely some rough edges: the test tools are centered around Microsoft Build (msbuild) integration, instead of Visual Studio integration; there’s no add-in or nice right-click project support to use these tools today.
We’ll be collecting feedback along the way and making changes in future releases. Until then, hopefully some of you will find the infrastructure useful, if only to peak behind the curtain. We’re also shipping the full source to these tools, you’ll find an Infrastructure.zip file inside the toolkit install folder.
from Jeff Wilcox more http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2009/11/november-walkthrough/
