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title: "Unit Testing in VS 2008 - Still not there"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/16/unit-testing-in-vs-2008-still-not-there.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/16/unit-testing-in-vs-2008-still-not-there.html"
published: "2007-10-16T19:34:21"
updated: "2007-10-16T19:34:21"
tags: ["Unit Testing"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I'm starting to take a look at VS 2008 and writing down some things that are still \"not there\": Renaming a class using the \"Rename\" refactoring still does not change the file name. Are you kidding me? using \"prop\"…"
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/"
---

# Unit Testing in VS 2008 - Still not there

By Roy Osherove October 16, 2007 In [Unit Testing](https://osherove.com/blog/category/unit-testing)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 16, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

I'm starting to take a look at VS 2008 and writing down some things that are still "not there":

- Renaming a class using the "Rename" refactoring **still** does not change the file name. Are you kidding me?
- using "prop" snippet produces the shorthand syntax for properties. Nice.
- This is still all the refactoring we have by default in VS 2008:

![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/logs.asp.net_blogs_rosherove_WindowsLiveWriter_UnitTestinginVS2008Stillnotthere_322F_image_thumb.png) Are you kidding me?

- You can finally do [test inheritance](http://blogs.msdn.com/nnaderi/archive/2007/05/11/new-unit-testing-features-in-orcas-part-1.aspx) (and many other small blessings. someone is listening)
- You **Still** have to using anything that derives from Exception but not the "Exception" type in the "Expected Exception" attribute. Truly silly.
- the \[ExpectedException\] attribute is still broken!! This test should fail due to a wrong exception message, but passes:

![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/gs.asp.net_blogs_rosherove_WindowsLiveWriter_UnitTestinginVS2008Stillnotthere_322F_image_thumb_1.png)

- No easy extensibility mechanism.
- No ability to run NUnit tests.

Someone is not paying enough attention, or has their priorities screwed up.

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