Thinking about Silverlight and Mocking

6 comments|Posted on July 28th, 2008

There are quite some Mocking frameworks available. But sadly no one is ported to Silverlight, yet. I know about the porting of NUnit to Silverlight, but while working on Unit tests for the "Silverlight Networking through Javascript" library I found out there's no Mocking framework yet to support the Silverlight runtime.

I would like to see some support for Silverlight from either Moq or Rhino Mocks. That's because I like the way those Mocking frameworks work. I think they both make use of Castle's DynamicProxy, so that's another thing that first needs to become Silverlight enabled.

I'm sure more people thought about Mocking in a Silverlight runtime but didn't find a solution too. I'm interested if anyone started to port one of the above Mocking frameworks to Silverlight. I'm not even totally sure if it's possible but at least a part of Reflection.Emit exists.

What are anyone's thoughts about Mocking in Silverlight?

Community Blogs July 29th, 2008 at 08:41
<strong>Silverlight Cream for July 28,2008 -- #337</strong>

Mark Monster on Mocking SL and Networking, Denislav Savkov inheriting from ItemsControl, Alex Golesh
Menahem Cohen July 29th, 2008 at 15:50
Why dont you try Typemock?
Mark Monster July 30th, 2008 at 18:05
I did look for support for Silverlight by TypeMock and couldn't find it. Does TypeMock support Silverlight already? Maybe I will try it when Silverlight is supported.
Thomas January 14th, 2009 at 21:21
Last but not least, I recently applied a patch that made Castle.DynamicProxy 2 also available for Silverlight...
Thomas January 14th, 2009 at 21:21
http://hammett.castleproject.org/?p=336
Alastair May 20th, 2009 at 10:45
Port of moq to Silverlight
http://www.flawlesscode.com/post/2008/08/Mocking-and-IOC-in-Silverlight-2-Castle-Project-and-Moq-ports.aspx

Port of Rhino Mocks to Silverlight:
http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2009/02/04/rhino-mocks-3.5-ndash-silverlight.aspx