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I have been working on a couple of projects and I like to keep my test/build environment separate from my production environment. Usually I only see these kinds of transformations in a web.config(web projects). Transformations in the config files allow for many different settings based on the specific configuration you may be building your project in. An example of why you might want multiple config files in a web application is so that you can have a local testing connection string and a production connection string set based on your project configuration. A quick search around the web will show many third party XML Transformation tools that you can use. With a bit of configuration Visual Studio will do this just fine.
Here is a simple step by step to get the same transformations that are in a web.config file in the app.config. Quick note I am using Visual Studio 2017 and a console application targeting .NET 4.5.
- For testing you can create a new C# console project targeting .NET 4.5
- Add an App.Debug.config and an App.Release.config file to the project.
- Unload the project
- Edit the project
- After the last PropertyGroup add:
Any code within Adding appsettings.json to.NET Core Console App by Shinigami is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This is something that strangely doesn’t seem to be that well documented and took me a while to figure out though in the end it’s pretty simple.
- There will be an ItemGroup in the .csproj file that has the App*.config files in it. Modify the group to resemble the below snippet:
- If a PropertyGroup does not exist that has the VisualStudioVersion tag in it create one and the VSToolsPath tag along side it. This will let the build process get access to the tools paths via a variable. I had to create one and it came out like below:
- Below the last import add in this new import using the variable just added:
- Almost there (^_^). Last thing to add to the .csproj file should be added at the very bottom of the root element:
- At this point you can save the .csproj file and reload it.
- Inside the newly created App.Release.config and App.Debug.config you can just copy in the standard Web.*.config template:
I hope that this helps someone out there as I have found it useful in many of my projects. I hope to share more tips that I have been using soon.
-->This walkthrough illustrates how to use a data source defined in an app.config file for unit testing. You will learn how to create an app.config file that defines a data source that can be used by the DataSourceAttribute class. Tasks presented in this walkthrough include the following:
- Creating an app.config file.
- Defining a custom configuration section.
- Defining connection strings.
- Defining the data sources.
- Accessing the data sources using the DataSourceAttribute class.
Prerequisites
To complete this walkthrough, you need:
- Visual Studio Enterprise
- Either Microsoft Access or Microsoft Excel to provide data for at least one of the test methods.
- A Visual Studio solution that contains a test project.
Add an app.config file to the project
- If your test project already has an app.config file, go to Define a custom configuration section.
- Right-click your test project in Solution Explorer, and then select Add > New Item.The Add New Item window opens.
- Select the Application Configuration File template and click Add.
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Define a custom configuration section
Examine the app.config file. It contains at least the XML declaration and a root element.
To add the custom configuration section to the app.config file
- The root element of app.config should be the configuration element. Create a configSections element within the configuration element. The configSections should be the first element in the app.config file.
- Within the configSections element, create a section element.
- In the section element, add an attribute called
name
and assign it a value ofmicrosoft.visualstudio.testtools
. Add another attribute calledtype
and assign it a value ofMicrosoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestConfigurationSection, Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.TestFramework.Extensions
.
The section element should look similar to this:
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The assembly name must match the version that you are using.
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Define connection strings
The connection strings define provider-specific information for accessing data sources. Connection strings defined in configuration files provide reusable data provider information across an application. In this section, you create two connection strings that will be used by data sources that are defined in the Custom Configuration Section.
To define connection strings
- After the configSections element, create a connectionStrings element.
- Within the connectionStrings element, create two add elements.
- In the first add element, create the following attributes and values for a connection to a Microsoft Access database:
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Attribute | Values |
---|---|
name | 'MyJetConn' |
connectionString | 'Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=C:testdatasource.accdb; Persist Security Info=False;' |
providerName | 'System.Data.OleDb' |
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In the second add element, create the following attributes and values for a connection to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet:
Attribute | Values |
---|---|
name | 'MyExcelConn' |
connectionString | 'Dsn=Excel Files;dbq=data.xlsx;defaultdir=.; driverid=790;maxbuffersize=2048;pagetimeout=5' |
providerName | 'System.Data.Odbc' |
The connectionStrings element should look similar to this:
Define data sources
The data sources section contains four attributes that are used by the test engine to retrieve data from a data source.
name
defines the identity used by the DataSourceAttribute to specify which data source to use.connectionString
identifies the connection string created in the previous Define Connection Strings section.dataTableName
defines the table or sheet that holds the data to use in the test.dataAccessMethod
defines the technique for accessing data values in the data source.
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In this section, you'll define two data sources to use in a unit test.
To define data sources
- After the connectionStrings element, create a microsoft.visualstudio.testtools element. This section was created in Define a Custom Configuration Section.
- Within the microsoft.visualstudio.testtools element, create a dataSources element.
- Within the dataSources element, create two add elements.
- In the first add element, create the following attributes and values for a Microsoft Access data source:
Attribute | Values |
---|---|
name | 'MyJetDataSource' |
connectionString | 'MyJetConn' |
dataTableName | 'MyDataTable' |
dataAccessMethod | 'Sequential' |
In the second add element, create the following attributes and values for a Microsoft Excel data source:
Attribute | Values |
---|---|
Name | 'MyExcelDataSource' |
connectionString | 'MyExcelConn' |
dataTableName | 'Sheet1$' |
dataAccessMethod | 'Sequential' |
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The microsoft.visualstudio.testtools element should look similar to this:
The final app.config file should look similar to this:
Create a unit test that uses data sources defined in app.config
Now that an app.config file has been defined, you will create a unit test that uses data located in the data sources that are defined in the app.config file. In this section, we will:
- Create the data sources found in the app.config file.
- Use the data sources in two test methods that compare the values in each data source.
To create a Microsoft Access data source
- Create a Microsoft Access database named testdatasource.accdb.
- Create a table and name it
MyDataTable
in testdatasource.accdb. - Create two fields in
MyDataTable
namedArg1
andArg2
using theNumber
data type. - Add five entities to
MyDataTable
with the following values forArg1
andArg2
, respectively: (10,50), (3,2), (6,0), (0,8) and (12312,1000). - Save and close the database.
- Change the connection string to point to the location of the database. Change the value of
Data Source
to reflect the location of the database.
To create a Microsoft Excel data source
- Create a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet named data.xlsx.
- Create a sheet named
Sheet1
if it does not already exist in data.xlsx. - Create two column headers and name them
Val1
andVal2
inSheet1
. - Add five entities to
Sheet1
with the following values forVal1
andVal2
, respectively: (1,1), (2,2), (3,3), (4,4) and (5,0). - Save and close the spreadsheet.
- Change the connection string to point to the location of the spreadsheet. Change the value of
dbq
to reflect the location of the spreadsheet.
To create a unit test using the app.config data sources
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- Add a unit test to the test project.
- Replace the auto-generated contents of the unit test with the following code:
- Examine the DataSource attributes. Notice the setting names from the app.config file.
- Build your solution and run MyTestMethod and MyTestMethod2 tests.
Important
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Deploy items like data sources so that they are accessible to the test in the deployment directory.