tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9023944205100803414.post2637964812525254977..comments2011-07-12T10:49:32.455-07:00Jeff Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09075745057339916352noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9023944205100803414.post-2421273937275738742008-02-02T01:53:00.000-08:002008-02-02T01:53:00.000-08:00@Callum,<BR/><BR/>Neat trick using ContextBoundObject.<BR/><BR/>However, your post does not address the concern I raised here. I was specifically complaining about the fact that it is not possible to host MSTest inside of another tool.<BR/><BR/>The only (legal) option seems to be running MSTest.exe which is quite unsatisfactory if we want to do things like enumerate tests for presentation in a GUI.<BR/><BR/>Obviously there are possible workarounds using deep reflection, but I'm worried I'll get slammed by Microsoft for circumventing deliberate limitations of the product.<BR/><BR/>This leaves users of MSTest locked into the framework since no one can deeply integrate MSTest into a third-party product short of reimplementing and emulating it.Jeff Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09075745057339916352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9023944205100803414.post-91824500774769682882008-02-01T15:15:00.000-08:002008-02-01T15:15:00.000-08:00Hi there,<BR/><BR/>It can be done:<BR/><BR/>http://callumhibbert.blogspot.com/2008/01/extending-mstest.html<BR/><BR/>Link in the post to my CodePlex project hosting some extensions to MSTest. More contributors welcome.<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/><BR/>CallumCallum Hibberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087498670872017678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9023944205100803414.post-30355249198533120962008-01-30T07:31:00.000-08:002008-01-30T07:31:00.000-08:00I'm not so sure it's as malicious as much as it is ignorant. MS has a penchant for making everything internal and private in their APIs and I think it's mostly to prevent people from hurting themselves. This is a bad design choice. There are other ways of protecting people from hurting themselves without blocking off a bunch of useful functionality.<BR/><BR/>I was browsing through Reflector at some ASP.NET stuff (including the new MVC stuff) and was frustrated with the number of internal, sealed, and private members and classes.<BR/><BR/>I wrote this blog post which is related to what you're talking about, you may find it interesting:<BR/>http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/chad_myers/archive/2008/01/06/a-challenge-to-microsoft-scott-guthrie.aspxChad Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14930587550535317718noreply@blogger.com