I am surprised not to find it in 2010, I would be very sad if it has disappeared as it is very useful to train and practice at the same time so where to activate it?
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Immediate Window http://blogs.msdn.com/b/habibh/archive/2009/07/27/visual-studio-2010-rip-list-partial.aspx
nubm
2010-09-18 15:11:42
Immediate Window has no visual complex representation like Object Bench, I fail to see how it's equivalent.
2010-09-18 15:15:33
It's the closest equivalent. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/habibh/archive/2009/07/27/visual-studio-2010-rip-list-partial.aspx - "Since most developers use the Immediate window as their primarily tool to run methods in the application while debugging, it was decided in Visual Studio 2010 to no longer invest in Object Test Bench and instead focus on the Immediate window as the primarily tool for interacting with objects while debugging."
klabranche
2010-09-18 15:23:07
@klabranche was faster and he is right :-) Object Test Bench was discontinued.
nubm
2010-09-18 15:24:30
sure it is discontinued or I wouldn't have asked the question but I thought it was replaced by something even better with another name ;) Instead we have the basic Immediate Window.
2010-09-20 21:15:26
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I agree that that was a great tool. The tools I use for that type of immediate testing is LinqPad, which is a code-driven tool that basically executes code oon-the-fly. I tend to use LinqPad for my quick and dirty tests. Or there's ClassMaster, which is a more visual tool and is the better tool for training and practicing, IMO.
There's always MSTest and NUnit for more formalized testing, but it doesn't sound like that's what you're after here.
Steve Danner
2010-09-18 15:43:47
I use Workbench as Simulator not as testing tool: it's great to show to Users who are amazed to see their business rules "live".
2010-09-19 00:23:13
Absolutely! You basically just write code in their editor and call the extension method "Dump()" that they've defined on the object class. For Example: DateTime.Now.Dump(); Easy to use, great tool.
Steve Danner
2010-09-21 14:58:32