.NET Musings

Oren Eini (Ayende Rahien) has just release Rhino Mocks 3.5 RTM. W00t!

Announcement here (http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2008/10/05/rhino-mocks-3.5-rtm.aspx), code can be found here (http://ayende.com/projects/rhino-mocks/downloads.aspx), documentation here (http://ayende.com/Wiki/Rhino+Mocks+3.5.ashx)

This is my favorite mocking framework, and RTM is excellent news!

Some of the new Features (taken from the announcement):

Features:
• Assert Act Arrange syntax for mocking
  • Including support for .NET 2.0
• Added a way to access the mocked method at runtime, using WhenCalled (similar to Do(), but without the pain of having to specify a special delegate).
• CreateMock() is deprecated and marked with the [Obsolete] attribute. Use StrictMock() instead.
• Inline constraints.
• Support for mocking interface in C++ that mix native and managed types. (Note, may require that you install kb957541 to get around bug introduced to the framework on SP1).
• New event raising syntax: eventHolder.Raise(stub => stub.Blah += null, this, EventArgs.Empty);
• Better support for multi threaded replays.
  • Note that access to the mock object is now serialized.
• Support AssertWasCalled on partial mocks.