--- title: "Test Driven .NET's new version supports all versions of VS 2005 including Express" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/12/test-driven-nets-new-version-supports-all-versions-of-vs-200.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/12/test-driven-nets-new-version-supports-all-versions-of-vs-200.html" published: "2005-11-12T18:27:00" updated: "2005-11-12T18:27:00" tags: [".Net 2.0", "Cool Tools"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Jamie Cansdale is a a pretty sharp guy. He's released the latest version of TestDriven.NET, one of the most productive addins for testing and debugging your code, and it works with Visual Studio 2005. Not only does it…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Test Driven .NET's new version supports all versions of VS 2005 including Express By Roy Osherove November 12, 2005 In [.Net 2.0](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-2-0), [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools) **Historical article** · Originally published November 12, 2005; technical details may be outdated. [Jamie Cansdale](http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin/) is a a pretty sharp guy. He's released the latest version of TestDriven.NET, one of the most productive addins for testing and debugging your code, and it works with Visual Studio 2005. Not only does it work with the Pro versions of VS 2005, it also works with the  **Express** versions of VB and C#. **That's in spite of the fact the the Express versions don't support the ability to host add-ins** :) The clever dude figured out a way to "trick" VS 2005 into hosting his Add-in in Express, which is very cool, and will help lots of developers. If you're planning to work with TD.NET with an express Version of Visual Studio, you should know theres a small caveat with it - the Code file must be "touched" first before the addin is available. Jamie has posted a specific movie showing exactly how to install and enable TD.NET in an Express edition. [Watch the "How To" here](http://www.mutantdesign.co.uk/demos/VCSExpress.html). You can download [TD.NET](http://www.testdriven.net/) from the main site, or through FolderShare.com, [where Jamie is hosting the latest version directly](http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin/archive/2005/11/07/429774.aspx) (the main site requires registration, FolderShare does not) ## More in .Net 2.0 [All posts in .Net 2.0](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-2-0) - Nov 26, 2005 ### [SQL 2005 management studio lacks.. lots of stuff.](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/26/sql-2005-management-studio-lacks-lots-of-stuff.html) - Nov 21, 2005 ### [Slides Available for my talks on C# 2.0, LINQ, Agile Methodologies and TDD Best Practices](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/21/slides-available-for-my-talks-on-c-20-linq-agile-methodologi.html) - Nov 10, 2005 ### [Cool Error Correction Dialog in VS 2005](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/10/cool-error-correction-dialog-in-vs-2005.html) - Nov 10, 2005 ### [Microsoft solves my RTM Bug (By Design..)](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/10/microsoft-solves-my-rtm-bug-by-design.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/