You&#39;re saying the test file&#39;s location will differ depending on the test runner, so I assume it&#39;s included in the project and copied together with the dll&#39;s.

    string path = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;

This will get you the folder where you&#39;re executing the test from. 

[Edit]

In Visual Studio.

Resharper -&gt; Options -&gt; Tools -&gt; Unit Testing -&gt; Run Results from: Specified Folder (or change the project output folder of your test project)

Where you can specify the folder of your test data, or relative to the specified folder.

(original answer updated to also accept .net core multi-target project output paths)


It assumes your test data files are in a folder that you pass as a parameter &quot;testDataFolder&quot; inside a root &quot;Test_Data&quot; folder:

    public static string GetTestDataFolder(string testDataFolder)
    {
        string startupPath = ApplicationEnvironment.ApplicationBasePath;
        var pathItems = startupPath.Split(Path.DirectorySeparatorChar);
        var pos = pathItems.Reverse().ToList().FindIndex(x =&gt; string.Equals(&quot;bin&quot;, x));
        string projectPath = String.Join(Path.DirectorySeparatorChar.ToString(), pathItems.Take(pathItems.Length - pos - 1));
        return Path.Combine(projectPath, &quot;Test_Data&quot;, testDataFolder);
    }




To find and replace all instances of a word in vim, I use

    %s/word/newword/g

How do I change this so that it only finds instances of &quot;word&quot; that are whole words?

Find and replace whole words in vim

The HINSTANCE of a win32 application is passed to WinMain, but is there any other way of determining the current HINSTANCE (in case you couldn&#39;t tell, I&#39;m very new to win32 programming!)? I need to create a window inside of a library and (since the library is cross platform), id prefer not to have to pass it in.

Determine the current HINSTANCE?

I am currently using the standard Microsoft Unit Test suite in VS 2008.  ReSharper 4.5 is also installed.  My unit tests rely on an TestInitialize method which pre-loads a data file.  The path to this test data file will differ depending on if I run the unit test from within VS 2008 using the standard Ctrl-R + Ctrl-T command versus the Resharper unit test execution command.

How can my TestInitialize method know the correct path to the unit test data files?

**Update:**

The test data is sizable enough that I don&#39;t want to push it into a string so prefer to keep it as an external file.  The file structure of my test project is that of the standard unit test project created with an MVC application.  Under the root of the test project, a new folder was created called &#39;Test Data&#39;.  It&#39;s this folder I&#39;d like to access regardless of test runner.

Path to Test Data Files for Unit Testing

I am currently using the standard Microsoft Unit Test suite in VS 2008. ReSharper 4.5 is also installed. My unit tests rely on an TestInitialize method which pre-loads a data file. The path to this test data file will differ depending on if I run the unit test from within VS 2008 using the standard Ctrl-R + Ctrl-T command versus the Resharper unit test execution command.
How can my TestInitialize method know the correct path to the unit test data files?
Update:
The test data is sizable enough that I don't want to push it into a string so prefer to keep it as an external file. The file structure of my test project is that of the standard unit test project created with an MVC application. Under the root of the test project, a new folder was created called 'Test Data'. It's this folder I'd like to access regardless of test runner.

I&#39;ve previously used a CookieContainer with HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse sessions, but now, I want to use it with a WebClient. As far as I understand, there is no built-in method like there is for HttpWebRequests (`request.CookieContainer`). **How can I collect cookies from a WebClient in a CookieContainer?**

I [googled][1] for this and found [the following sample][2]:

    public class CookieAwareWebClient : WebClient
    {
        private readonly CookieContainer m_container = new CookieContainer();

        protected override WebRequest GetWebRequest(Uri address)
        {
            WebRequest request = base.GetWebRequest(address);
            HttpWebRequest webRequest = request as HttpWebRequest;
            if (webRequest != null)
            {
                webRequest.CookieContainer = m_container;
            }
            return request;
        }
    }

Is this the best way to do it?


  [1]: http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS308US308&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=webclient.cookiecontainer
  [2]: http://couldbedone.blogspot.com/2007/08/webclient-handling-cookies.html

Using CookieContainer with WebClient class

I want to do something like this:

    List&lt;Child&gt; childList = new List&lt;Child&gt;();
    ...
    List&lt;Parent&gt; parentList = childList;

However, because parentList is a &lt;i&gt;List&lt;/i&gt; of Child&#39;s ancestor, rather than a direct ancestor, I am unable to do this. Is there a workaround (other than adding each element individually)?

In C#, is it possible to cast a List&lt;Child&gt; to List&lt;Parent&gt;?

The following example fills the **ItemsControl** with a List&lt;string&gt; of **BackupDirectories** which I get from code.

**How can I change this so that I get the same information from the app.config file?**

**XAML:**

&lt;!-- language: lang-xml --&gt;

    &lt;Window x:Class=&quot;TestReadMultipler2343.Window1&quot;
        xmlns=&quot;http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation&quot;
        xmlns:x=&quot;http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml&quot;
        Title=&quot;Window1&quot; Height=&quot;300&quot; Width=&quot;300&quot;&gt;
        &lt;Grid Margin=&quot;10&quot;&gt;
            &lt;Grid.RowDefinitions&gt;
                &lt;RowDefinition Height=&quot;30&quot;/&gt;
                &lt;RowDefinition Height=&quot;Auto&quot;/&gt;
            &lt;/Grid.RowDefinitions&gt;
            &lt;Grid.ColumnDefinitions&gt;
                &lt;ColumnDefinition Width=&quot;120&quot;/&gt;
                &lt;ColumnDefinition Width=&quot;160&quot;/&gt;
            &lt;/Grid.ColumnDefinitions&gt;
            &lt;TextBlock 
                Grid.Row=&quot;0&quot;
                Grid.Column=&quot;0&quot;
                Text=&quot;Title:&quot;/&gt;
            &lt;TextBlock 
                Grid.Row=&quot;0&quot;
                Grid.Column=&quot;1&quot; 
                Text=&quot;{Binding Title}&quot;/&gt;
            &lt;TextBlock 
                Grid.Row=&quot;1&quot;
                Grid.Column=&quot;0&quot;
                Text=&quot;Backup Directories:&quot;/&gt;
            &lt;ItemsControl 
                Grid.Row=&quot;1&quot;
                Grid.Column=&quot;1&quot;
                ItemsSource=&quot;{Binding BackupDirectories}&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;/Grid&gt;
    &lt;/Window&gt;

**code-behind:**

    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Windows;
    using System.Configuration;
    using System.ComponentModel;
    
    namespace TestReadMultipler2343
    {
        public partial class Window1 : Window, INotifyPropertyChanged
        {
    
            #region ViewModelProperty: Title
            private string _title;
            public string Title
            {
                get
                {
                    return _title;
                }
    
                set
                {
                    _title = value;
                    OnPropertyChanged(&quot;Title&quot;);
                }
            }
            #endregion
    
            #region ViewModelProperty: BackupDirectories
            private List&lt;string&gt; _backupDirectories = new List&lt;string&gt;();
            public List&lt;string&gt; BackupDirectories
            {
                get
                {
                    return _backupDirectories;
                }
    
                set
                {
                    _backupDirectories = value;
                    OnPropertyChanged(&quot;BackupDirectories&quot;);
                }
            }
            #endregion
    
            public Window1()
            {
                InitializeComponent();
                DataContext = this;
    
                Title = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get(&quot;title&quot;);
    
                GetBackupDirectoriesInternal();
            }
    
            void GetBackupDirectoriesInternal()
            {
                BackupDirectories.Add(@&quot;C:\test1&quot;);
                BackupDirectories.Add(@&quot;C:\test2&quot;);
                BackupDirectories.Add(@&quot;C:\test3&quot;);
                BackupDirectories.Add(@&quot;C:\test4&quot;);
            }
    
            void GetBackupDirectoriesFromConfig()
            {
                //BackupDirectories = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.GetValues(&quot;backupDirectories&quot;);
            }
    
    
            #region INotifiedProperty Block
            public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
    
            protected void OnPropertyChanged(string propertyName)
            {
                PropertyChangedEventHandler handler = PropertyChanged;
    
                if (handler != null)
                {
                    handler(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
                }
            }
            #endregion
    
        }
    }


**app.config:**

&lt;!-- language: lang-xml --&gt;

    &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;utf-8&quot; ?&gt;
    &lt;configuration&gt;
      &lt;appSettings&gt;
        &lt;add key=&quot;title&quot; value=&quot;Backup Tool&quot; /&gt;
        &lt;!--&lt;add key=&quot;backupDirectories&quot;&gt;
          &lt;add value=&quot;C:\test1&quot;/&gt;
          &lt;add value=&quot;C:\test2&quot;/&gt;
          &lt;add value=&quot;C:\test3&quot;/&gt;
          &lt;add value=&quot;C:\test4&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;/add&gt;--&gt;
      &lt;/appSettings&gt;
    &lt;/configuration&gt;




How to get a List&lt;string&gt; collection of values from app.config in WPF?

Let&#39;s say I have a sequence.

    IEnumerable&lt;int&gt; sequence = GetSequenceFromExpensiveSource();
    // sequence now contains: 0,1,2,3,...,999999,1000000

Getting the sequence is not cheap and is dynamically generated, and I want to iterate through it once only.

I want to get 0 - 999999 (i.e. everything but the last element)

I recognize that I could do something like:

    sequence.Take(sequence.Count() - 1);

but that results in two enumerations over the big sequence.

Is there a LINQ construct that lets me do:

    sequence.TakeAllButTheLastElement();

How to take all but the last element in a sequence using LINQ?

All over the web, code samples have `for` loops which look like this:

    for(int i = 0; i &lt; 5; i++)

while I used the following format:

    for(int i = 0; i != 5; ++i)

I do this because I believe it to be more efficient, but does this really matter in most cases?

Technical reasons behind formatting when incrementing by 1 in a &#39;for&#39; loop?

I have an interface with a method that expects an array of `Foo`:

    public interface IBar {
      void doStuff(Foo[] arr);
    }

I am mocking this interface using Mockito, and I&#39;d like to assert that `doStuff()` is called, but I don&#39;t want to validate what argument are passed - &quot;don&#39;t care&quot;.

How do I write the following code using `any()`, the generic method, instead of `anyObject()`?

    IBar bar = mock(IBar.class);
    ...
    verify(bar).doStuff((Foo[]) anyObject());


Using Mockito&#39;s generic &quot;any()&quot; method

I&#39;m pretty new to JUnit, and I don&#39;t really know what best practices are for exceptions and exception handling.

For example, let&#39;s say I&#39;m writing tests for an IPAddress class. It has a constructor IPAddress(String addr) that will throw an InvalidIPAddressException if addr is null. As far as I can tell from googling around, the test for the null parameter will look like this.

	@Test
	public void testNullParameter()
	{
		try
		{
			IPAddress addr = new IPAddress(null);
			assertTrue(addr.getOctets() == null);
		}
		catch(InvalidIPAddressException e)
		{
			return;
		}
		
		fail(&quot;InvalidIPAddressException not thrown.&quot;);
	}

In this case, try/catch makes sense because I know the exception is coming.

But now if I want to write testValidIPAddress(), there&#39;s a couple of ways to do it:

Way #1:

	@Test
	public void testValidIPAddress() throws InvalidIPAddressException
	{
		IPAddress addr = new IPAddress(&quot;127.0.0.1&quot;);
		byte[] octets = addr.getOctets();
		
		assertTrue(octets[0] == 127);
		assertTrue(octets[1] == 0);
		assertTrue(octets[2] == 0);
		assertTrue(octets[3] == 1);
	}

Way #2:

	@Test
	public void testValidIPAddress()
	{
		try
		{
			IPAddress addr = new IPAddress(&quot;127.0.0.1&quot;);
			byte[] octets = addr.getOctets();
			
			assertTrue(octets[0] == 127);
			assertTrue(octets[1] == 0);
			assertTrue(octets[2] == 0);
			assertTrue(octets[3] == 1);
		}
		catch (InvalidIPAddressException e)
		{
			fail(&quot;InvalidIPAddressException: &quot; + e.getMessage());
		}
	}

Is is standard practice to throw unexpected exceptions to JUnit or just deal with them yourself?

Thanks for the help.

Bad form for JUnit test to throw exception?

I&#39;m getting started with Python (it&#39;s high time I give it a shot), and I&#39;m looking for some best practices.

My first project is a queue which runs command-line experiments in multiple threads. I&#39;m starting to get a very long `main.py` file, and I&#39;d like to break it up. In general, I&#39;m looking for: **How do python programmers organize multiple source files?** Is there a particular structure that works for you?

My specific questions include:

 1. Should each class be in a separate file?
 2. How should I organize unit tests relative to source code?
 3. Where should I put doc comments, specifically those for command-line operation?
 4. If I use multiple directories, how do I import classes between them?

I can probably draw some of my own conclusions here by trial and error, but I&#39;d rather start from something _good_.

How should I organize Python source code?

I have been developing an iphone application using a domain model, and have put off the persistence aspect of the app until now.  Core Data looks like a really good solution since I already have a well defined model but I am running into a snag with my existing unit tests.

Here is simple example of what I have now:

    - (void)test_full_name_returns_correct_string {
        Patient *patient = [[Patient alloc] init];  
        patient.firstName = @&quot;charlie&quot;;
        patient.lastName = @&quot;chaplin&quot;;
        STAssertTrue([[patient fullName] isEqualToString:@&quot;charlie chaplin&quot;], @&quot;should have matched full name&quot;);
    }  

How can I make this work once my Patient object extends from NSManagedObject and uses @dynamic for the firstName and lastName properties?

Has anyone else run into this type of this with Core Data?  Thanks.


How to unit test my models now that I am using Core Data?

I know you can run all the tests in a certain class using:


    mvn test -Dtest=classname

But I want to run an individual method and -Dtest=classname.methodname  doesn&#39;t seem to work.

Run a single test method with maven

I&#39;ve just started using ReSharper with Visual Studio (after the many recommendations on SO). To try it out I opened up a recent ASP.NET MVC project. One of the first and most frequent things I&#39;ve noticed it suggesting is to change most/all my explicit declarations to `var` instead. For example:

    //From This:
    MyObject foo = DB.MyObjects.SingleOrDefault(w =&gt; w.Id == 1);
    //To This:
    var foo = DB.MyObjects.SingleOrDefault(w =&gt; w.Id == 1);

and so on, even with simple types such as `int`, `bool`, etc.

Why is this being recommended? I don&#39;t come from a computer science or .NET background, having &quot;fallen into&quot; .NET development recently, so I&#39;d really like to understand what&#39;s going on and whether it&#39;s of benefit or not.

Why does ReSharper want to use &#39;var&#39; for everything?

I have ReSharper 4.5 in Visual Studio 2008. Now I want to install ReSharper 5, but I can&#39;t do it before I uninstall ReSharper 4.5.

How can I uninstall ReSharper 4.5?

Uninstall ReSharper 4.5

Not sure how I can fix this, trying to do a unit test on the method &quot;GetByTitle&quot;

Here are my definitions:

    public class ArticleDAO :  GenericNHibernateDAO(IArticle, int&gt;, IArticleDAO
    {
        public IArticle GetByTitle(string title)
        {
            IQuery query = Session.CreateQuery(&quot;...&quot;)
            return query.UniqueResult&lt;IArticle&gt;();
        }
    }
    
    public interface IArticleDAO
    {
        IArticle GetByTitle(string title);
    }

unit test:

    [Test]
    public void can_load_by_title()
    {
        _mockDaoFactory.Setup(x =&gt; x.GetArticleDao())
                                    .Returns(_mockArticleDao.Object);
        _mockArticleDao.Setup(x =&gt; x.GetByTitle(&quot;some title&quot;))
                                    .Returns(article1.Object);
    
        _articleManager.LoadArticle(&quot;some title&quot;);

        Assert.IsNotNull(_articleManager.Article);
    }

Running the test gives me the error:

    System.ArgumentException: Invalid setup on a non-overridable member:
    x =&gt; x.GetByTitle(&quot;some title&quot;)

&lt;b&gt;Update&lt;/b&gt;

My `[Setup]` looks like:

    [Setup]
    public void SetUp()
    {
         _mockDaoFactory = new Mock&lt;IDaoFactory&gt;();
         _mockArticleDao = new Mock&lt;ArticleDao&gt;();
    
         _articleManager = new ArticleManager(_mockDaoFactory.Object);    
    }

Moq: Invalid setup on a non-overridable member: x =&gt; x.GetByTitle(&quot;asdf&quot;)

I installed [ReSharper][1], and it works in Visual Studio, but how can I disable it?

Whenever I search in the ReSharper menu, I can&#39;t find a disable option.

  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReSharper


How can I disable ReSharper in Visual Studio and enable it again?

I have a solution that contains a website and a class library in Visual Studio 2008. 

I then have another web site project outside of the solution that needs to reference the class library. I right click the Bin folder or Project and select Add Reference, then select my Class Library Project, it adds the 15 or so DLLs that the class library needs to the websites bin folder, but none of the .cs files recognize the using statements.

    using MyLibrary.MyFolder;

It says that it can&#39;t resolve it, and ReSharper just says it can be safely removed since it&#39;s not being used.

ReSharper can recognize that it needs the reference and suggests that it &quot;Reference MyLibrary and use MyFolder&quot;. I&#39;m not sure why it&#39;s suggesting I add a reference I already have. When I go with the suggestion, I get the error 
&gt;&quot;Failed to reference module. Probably, reference will produce circular dependencies between projects.&quot;

I&#39;ve tried going to the websites property pages and removing all the references and re-adding them, but it gives the same errors. Any ideas why this isn&#39;t working?

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Path to Test Data Files for Unit Testing

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Determine the current HINSTANCE?

Find and replace whole words in vim

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