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Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action

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Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action

Overview of this book

Microsoft Silverlight is fully established as a powerful tool for creating and delivering Rich Internet Applications and media experiences on the Web. This book will help you dive straight into utilizing Silverlight 5, which now more than ever is a top choice in the Enterprise for building Business Applications. "Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action" focuses on the development of a complete Silverlight 5 LOB application, helping you to take advantage of the powerful features available along with expert advice. Fully focused on LOB development, this expert guide takes you from the beginning of designing and implementing a Silverlight 5 LOB application, all the way through to completion. Accompanied by a gradually built upon case study, you will learn about data access via RIA and Web services, architecture with MEF and MVVM applied to LOB development, testing and error control, and much more.With "Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action" in hand, you will be fully equipped to expertly develop your own Silverlight Line of Business application, without dwelling on the basics of Enterprise Silverlight development.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Unit testing with Silverlight


As we already know, in a Silverlight business application, we will have code on both client-side and server-side. The first one will be based on the .NET Framework, and the second one, on Silverlight. To make concept assimilation easier, we will first talk about testing on .NET 4.0, then, we will deal with particular cases in Silverlight where we will apply the concepts previously seen.

Testing server code

Tests will have to be grouped into a test project, which is a special kind of project Visual Studio executes to check test results (or MSBuild, if we are in a context of continuous integration). In order to generate this project, we have to select Test as the template from the Installed Templates list, and then Test Project, as shown in the following screenshot:

Give a name to the project (in this example, ReservationsTest) and it will generate a simple structure similar to the following screenshot:

This includes the reference to the MSTest test library, as...