Also where can I buy one of those whiteboards It looks to be an EduBoard interactive whiteboard P3000, but they don't appear to have any retailers in the US.

Keep up the great work!

posted by gbrayut

It is not even a whiteboard, it is just a projector and a eBeam Whiteboard device

posted by peli

In other words, I would like it if you could change the syntax of that added line of code to something like:

override get DateTime.Now = () => new DateTime(2000, 1, 1);

posted by bondsbw

posted by peli

 MDate.GetNow = () => New Date(2000,1,1)

Or am I missing something.

Idea add a attribute to the class,method etc, where within that scope the GET is intercepted and the test value is returned.

For Example:-

<Test.InterceptGet("System.Date.Now",() => new Date(2010,4,1))>

posted by AdamSpeight2008

I can see alot of places where we can use this while doing ASP.NET at least.

posted by NeZz_DK

The attributes would not work for a number of reasons: you cannot declare delegates in attribute constructors. The string identifier is not verified by the compiler (in fact your example is wrong). Moles are strongly typed. In general, generics and all this good stuff would make it really hard to use any kind of attribute based solution.

posted by peli

posted by peli

Maybe I should have explained in more detail

The idea was when the code is run in "Test Mode" the Test Engine recognises that that class has a Test attribute.

 So read the string part "System.Date,Now" which is interpted to mean that that method is called for by the CLR I want to use the alternative version.

 The alternative version is provided via a func ( The Lamba Expression )

Shame about the attributes, having to be a constant expression, because its converted to metadata, I think having a func would be useful.

Imagine you have an AddressOf and point it a function contained in a test module.

posted by AdamSpeight2008

posted by Richard.Hein

That being said, your idea of being able to switch between a isolated test mode and an integration mode is good. This is something we want to provide in the future but still a big question mark on how we are going to implement it.

posted by peli

Looks like an inexpensive replacement for TypeMock which already is able to mock DateTime.Now.

Question: This justs creates another implementation for DateTime.Now. If I have a function I want to test that uses DateTime.Now and DateTime.UtcNow as well, I need to mock both, right?

posted by voneinem

http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2008/07/07/Dealing-with-time-in-tests.aspx

posted by robcube

    var now = new DateTime(2000,1,1);

    MDateTime.UtcNowGet = () => now;

    MDateTime.NowGet = () => now.ToLocalTime();

posted by peli

In both cases, the Pex parameter generation can be used to improve code coverage.

posted by peli

posted by dpurrington

With Object Expression you could write something like :

let obj1 = { new System.Object() with member x.ToString() = "F#" }

or

let personComparer = {
new
 IComparable<Person> with
 

but you cannot write this, because DateTime is sealed.

let now = {
new
 System.DateTime() with
member
 x.Now() = new
 DateTime(2000,1,1) }

Benny

    member this.Compare(a,b) =

           if a.First
 > b.First then
 1
           elif
 a.First = b.First then
 0

           else
 0 }

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Thanks,

John

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