We all know that Test Driven Development makes development so much quicker and safer. However, I’ve had a problem for a while whereby my NUnit test cases which reference libraries built for BizTalk projects don’t update when I make a change to the code and re-run the test case. The only way around it was to restart Visual Studio – a major pain.
Today I did a bit more digging and found out what was wrong. BizTalk needs signed assemblies deployed to the GAC to be picked up at runtime so I’ve always automatically done this and also added a post build event to add my assemblies to the GAC on a successful build. It was this that was causing my NUnit test case to pick up the signed version instead.
The solution is to untick the “sign the assembly” box in the properties of the library and also REM the post build events whilst you are in the unit testing phase. This will mean the NUnit library will pick up the version of the .dll within your Visual Studio environment.
