--- title: "Unit Testing in VB.NET – with Typemock Isolator (with a free license offer)" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/1/13/unit-testing-in-vbnet-with-typemock-isolator-with-a-free-lic.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/1/13/unit-testing-in-vbnet-with-typemock-isolator-with-a-free-lic.html" published: "2009-01-13T11:24:18" updated: "2009-01-13T11:24:18" tags: ["Agile", "Agile Related", "Unit Testing"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "A move I’ve been pushing for a while now has finally come through today – Helping to bring unit testing into VB.NET. This is something I strongly believe in: VB has been kind of left behind with the range of latest…" 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 VB.NET – with Typemock Isolator (with a free license offer) By Roy Osherove January 13, 2009 In [Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile), [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related), [Unit Testing](https://osherove.com/blog/category/unit-testing) **Historical article** · Originally published January 13, 2009; technical details may be outdated. A move I’ve been pushing for a while now has finally come through today – Helping to bring unit testing into VB.NET. This is something I strongly believe in: VB has been kind of left behind with the range of latest alt.net related frameworks – mostly because they are C# specific. That means that some of them if not most, that use mambda expressions or anonymous delegates, are less approachable to the larger VB community (VB is missing some key functionality in that space, but even if it did have that functionality, I think the new API we are bringing is easier to grok). [We're announcing today](http://blog.typemock.com/2009/01/get-free-isolator-licnese-for-helping.html) a new version of Typemock Isolator (5.2). One of the coolest features in the new version is the inclusion of a new [VB .NET unit testing API](http://www.typemock.com/vbpage.php). This 'VB friendly' API was designed and written in VB.NET, for VB.NET developers. It uses the strengths of the VB.NET language to allow easy and intuitive use of the isolation API, for easier unit tests on any piece of .NET code. To launch this enhanced VB support we are offering you a **FREE full Typemock Isolator 5.2 personal license** (worth $139 !!!). **How do I get a free license?** Post the text below on your blog (as is, with links) and tell us about it . If you are in the first 25 to mail us after posting, your license will be on its way! If you have a **VB.NET dedicated blog**, you'll get a license automatically (even if more than 25 submit) during the first week of this announcement. A few simple requirements: **(1)** You must own a website, blog space or internet column, older than 2 months, or get permission from the owner of such a site. **(2)** Your post must include the text below (including the links) between **\*Begin\*** and **\*End\***. \_ **\*Begin\*** [Programming Visual Basic](http://www.typemock.com/vbpage.php) applications? Typemock have released a new version of their [unit testing](http://www.typemock.com/) tool, Typemock Isolator 5.2. This version includes a new friendly [VB.NET](http://www.typemock.com/vbpage.php) API which makes Isolator the best Isolation tool for [unit testing A Visual Basic (VB) .NET application](http://www.typemock.com/vbpage.php). Isolator now allows unit testing in VB or C# for many ‘hard to test’ technologies such as [SharePoint](http://typemock.com/sharepointpage.php), ASP.NET MVC, partial support for Silverlight, WPF, LINQ, WF, Entity Framework, [WCF unit testing](http://www.typemock.com/wcfpage.php) and more. Note that the first 25 bloggers who blog this text in their blog and tell us about it, will get a **Free Full Isolator license** (worth $139). If you post this in a **VB.NET dedicated blog**, you'll get a license automatically (even if more than 25 submit) during the first week of this announcement. Go ahead, click the following link for [more information](http://blog.typemock.com/2009/01/get-free-isolator-licnese-for-helping.html) on how to get your free license. \_ **\*End\*** ## More in Agile [All posts in Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile) - Feb 22, 2009 ### [How we do TDD – Talk today](https://osherove.com/blog/2009/2/22/how-we-do-tdd-talk-today.html) - Feb 16, 2009 ### [Looking for an Agile developer, again!](https://osherove.com/blog/2009/2/16/looking-for-an-agile-developer-again.html) - Dec 14, 2008 ### [TDD Case Studies and research](https://osherove.com/blog/2008/12/14/tdd-case-studies-and-research.html) - Dec 3, 2008 ### [lowering the adoption barrier for unit testing: doctest in python](https://osherove.com/blog/2008/12/3/lowering-the-adoption-barrier-for-unit-testing-doctest-in-py.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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