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Unit Testing in .NET: How to Mock Entity Data Provider

Does anyone know whether there's a way to mock Entity Data Provider so Unit Tests don't hit the live data? I found this blog but it seems the project hasn't been released:

http://www.chrisdoesdev.com/index.php/archives/62

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I would be interested to know this myself. I don't think that it's possible, because one of the things that got the Agile/Alt.Net community in a tizzy about the Entity Framework was this very problem of the lack of persistence ignorance.

Charles Graham  2008-09-18 18:38:24
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Mattwar has a great article on his blog about mocking up LinqtoSql with reflection -- perhaps you can use that as a starting point?

Danimal  2008-09-18 18:41:41

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