As always, I'm a little bit late with the news: NUnit 2.4.0 has finally been officially released. For those who don't know, NUnit is an excellent Unit Testing framework and toolkit that makes good use of modern C# language features (for instance, you declare a unit test using attributes). The new 2.4.0 release is able to execute tests of NUnit 2.2.x, csUnit, VSTS and provides several new assertion classes making it much easier to write tests involving collections, files and strings.
Also available these days is a beta of TestDriven.NET, an addin for Visual Studio that enables you to run your unit tests without ever leaving Visual Studio. Instead of writing small throw-away programs that call some methods you want to debug, how about writing a unit test that you can instantly use for debugging? That's the coolness of TestDriven.NET!
TestDriven.NET 2.5 also integrates into the Express Editions again after several releases where this feature was disabled due to legal issues with Microsoft. I don't know how Microsoft and TestDriven.NET programmer Jamie worked things out, but it's good to have this tool available once again!
For those of you interested, I've put together some binaries of NUnit 2.4.0 r2 and a compatible build of NMock from CVS for both .NET 2.0 and Mono 2.0 in my external library repository at https://devel.nuclex.org/external/svn/nunit/tags/2.4.0-r2 and https://devel.nuclex.org/external/svn/nmock/tags/cvs-2007-04-11.
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