Using the VS Web Test Classes outside Visual Studio

Question

I use HttpWebRequests pretty extensively - I've found that the Visual Studio Web Test classes (i.e. WebTestRequest and WebTestResponse etc) offer a lot of really nice methods that i'd love to start using.

But I can't seem to find a way to use these classes outside of the Visual Studio's testing framework. Has anyone done this?

Answer 1

Will, WebTestRequest and WebTestResponse aren't designed to be used like HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse. They're mostly containers for passing various request and response data into and out of the web/load test engine in Visual Studio or MSTest.

I wrote both of the classes and even I find myself wishing I could use them for other purposes :) I've definitely had to reinvent similar querystring parameter parsing logic for other projects since then.

Josh