---
title: "Introducing SilverUnit"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/2/25/introducing-silverunit.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/2/25/introducing-silverunit.html"
published: "2009-02-25T02:10:29"
updated: "2009-02-25T02:10:29"
tags: ["Agile"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "SilverUnit is a new open source Unit Testing framework for SilverLight ( true unit testing, not the Integration style, browser-backed, Async-driven C#-only-friendly, monster of a Test Framework from Microsoft). 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/"
---

# Introducing SilverUnit

By Roy Osherove February 25, 2009 In [Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 25, 2009; technical details may be outdated.

[SilverUnit](http://www.codeplex.com/CThru/Wiki/View.aspx?title=SilverUnit%20examples&referringTitle=Home) is a new open source Unit Testing framework for SilverLight (**true** unit testing, not [the Integration style, browser-backed, Async-driven C#-only-friendly, monster of a Test Framework](http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/silverlightut) from Microsoft). [All the gory details](http://blog.typemock.com/2009/02/silverunit-true-unit-testing-for.html) – [Here](http://blog.typemock.com/2009/02/silverunit-true-unit-testing-for.html).

Oh, and it’s written in VB.NET. Let’s see if VBers will step up to contribute to this.

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## About the author

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