--- title: "NUnit 2.2.4: .NET 2.0 Support, Extensibility Support and new Asserts and Attributes" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/12/17/nunit-224-net-20-support-extensibility-support-and-new-asser.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/12/17/nunit-224-net-20-support-extensibility-support-and-new-asser.html" published: "2005-12-17T19:26:00" updated: "2005-12-17T19:26:00" tags: ["Agile Israel News", "Agile Related", "Cool Tools", "Team Agile News"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Got this from Charlie Poole today: We just released NUnit 2.2.4, the first production release of NUnit since 2.2 was released in August 2004. That means it's the release we recommend you use now - as opposed to all the…" 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/" --- # NUnit 2.2.4: .NET 2.0 Support, Extensibility Support and new Asserts and Attributes By Roy Osherove December 17, 2005 In [Agile Israel News](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-israel-news), [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related), [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools), [Team Agile News](https://osherove.com/blog/category/team-agile-news) **Historical article** · Originally published December 17, 2005; technical details may be outdated. Got this from [Charlie Poole](http://nunit.com/blogs) today: We just released NUnit 2.2.4, the first production release of NUnit since 2.2 was released in August 2004. That means it's the release we recommend you use now - as opposed to all the warnings we give with our development releases. If you haven't followed the development releases, here are a few highlights of what's new, as compared to NUnit 2.2: - NUnit 2.2.4 runs under .Net 2.0 and works with VS2005. If you work exclusively with .Net 2.0, you can download a version that is actually built with that framework version, which eliminates dealing with the config file. - You can run tests built against older versions - 2.0 or later - of NUnit without recompiling. As a bonus, you can run tests built against CSUnit without recompiling. - A number of new Asserts and Attributes have been added. It is now much easier to create your own custom Asserts while still taking advantage of NUnit's built-in error message formatting. -  An extensibility mechanism allows you to define your own attributes for test fixtures and cases that behave in non-standard ways. \[This feature is Still a bit experimental, and will appear in final form in the 2.4 release. - Documentation is substantially improved and is provided as a set of html files. The packaged documentation includes only version-specific details, with info that may change over time, such as contacts, kept on the web site. You can read the full release notes at [http://nunit.com/testweb/index.php?p=releaseNotes&r=2.2.4](http://nunit.com/testweb/index.php?p=releaseNotes&r=2.2.4). Note that the nunit.org site has not yet been updated to reflect this release. You can download NUnit 2.2.4 at [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group\_id=10749](http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10749). ## More in Agile Israel News [All posts in Agile Israel News](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-israel-news) - Dec 19, 2005 ### [Video: Johanna Rothman at Agile Israel: Moving Towards Agile Project Management](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/12/19/video-johanna-rothman-at-agile-israel-moving-towards-agile-p.html) - Dec 19, 2005 ### [3rd Agile Israel TDD workshop registration is now closed](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/12/19/3rd-agile-israel-tdd-workshop-registration-is-now-closed.html) - Dec 15, 2005 ### [Agile Israel News: RSS Feed and 3rd TDD Workshop are now open!](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/12/15/agile-israel-news-rss-feed-and-3rd-tdd-workshop-are-now-open.html) - Dec 15, 2005 ### [Reminder: Agile Israel meets today!](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/12/15/reminder-agile-israel-meets-today.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. 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