How to Create Silverlight Control Using TDD (Test Driven Development)

Written by Andrew Ivanov Monday, 19 March 2012

In this article we will learn:

• How to create simple Silverlight expander control
• What could be tested in Silverlight control
• Microsoft Silverlight Unit Test Framework overview

Preparation

To work with Silverlight 4 in Visual Studio 2010, you will need to download and install Silverlight Tools 4

• Microsoft Silverlight Unit Test Framework overview

– Unit tests run right inside the web browser

– Enables testing of rich controls and the entire Silverlight platform

– Rich in-browser logging

– Basic asynchronous testing support

• What can be tested in Silverlight control

– DependencyProperty

– Control contract

– State of child controls inside template

• How to create Silverlight control using TDD (demo)

– ExpanderControl

Demo

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Resources

• Microsoft Silverlight Unit Test Framework
• Microsoft Silverlight Toolkit
• Test-driven development

Source Code