I was running into this error when running my Nunit-tests.

Executing : C:\Program Files\NUnit 2.5.2\bin\net-2.0\nunit-console.exe

With Command Line : TDB2009.View.Test.C.dll

NUnit version 2.5.2.9222

Copyright (C) 2002-2009 Charlie Poole.

Copyright (C) 2002-2004 James W. Newkirk, Michael C. Two, Alexei A. Vorontsov.

Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Philip Craig.

All Rights Reserved.

Runtime Environment -

OS Version: Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2

CLR Version: 2.0.50727.3...

In some cases, you want to have a file in your Startupfolder that you want to access from within your application. Perhaps an XML-file with application settings or an image that can be changed.

In most cases the application startuppath will be in program files so you don't really want to put too much stuff in there but from time to time, you might.

And I always like to test if the pesky file is configured right, so that it appears as a file in that folder.

For example, if I have an image that has this as a path:

Like the title says An nUnit testfixture file template for resharper that also conforms to stylecop laws. Here it is.

Life can be so simple sometimes but you just have to think about it.

I found it very cool when Sean Feldman posted this CategoryAttribute. Yeah I know the title doesn't say everything and the post iskinda short but very sweet to me. More DRYness to play with.

Now let me translate his post into VB.Net.

How not to do it.

Today I noticed that my integration tests with nhibernate were runnning very slow on the build server. Very slow meaning 1 hour to run while they run for 6 minutes on my dev machine all 840 of them. Something was different.

I am using Finalbuilder 5.5 on my build machine and that uses the nunit console to do the dirty work for it.

So I tried running it in the nuint gui tool and there too it was slow.

So I clicked a bit on the tabs, one never knows when one might get lucky and low and behold I was lucky. The Log tab of the GUi builder was getting lots of work.

I ...