Object Test Bench Issue

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mskeel

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I've been having some trouble firing up the new Object Test Bench feature in VS2005. I had it up and running yesterday, but now I can't seem to be able to get it to crank up again. All I did yesterday was right click on the class I wanted to test from the class view window and selected "Instantiate object". Then a whole bunch of great stuff happened and I was able to run individual methods with break points and the whole shebang. It was just like test driven .net but native.

Anyway, that's all fine and great, but I can't figure out how go get it back. Any help is greatly appreciated. Are there tricks that I could have done accidentally and need to do again? I'm sort of at a loss.
 
I hate it when this happens, but I just just found the solution. After exhausting the MSDN2 help I posted here. Then I decided to try the "Community"->"Ask a question" menu item. That brought me to a Microsoft Forum where a guy made side comment about ASP.Net:
dsandor said:
In summary, you need to set your startup project to a class library or an executable instead of an ASP.NET project. Then the create instance menu items become available and you can use the OTB.
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It turns out (at least as far as I can tell) that you can only use the Object Test Bench on your current startup object. That means that if you are trying to test a library, like I was, that isn't your startup object, the context menu items will not show up. Yesterday I just happened to choose the library that was my startup object. Whew, I'm not crazy.

That's a little annoying but at least you can test stuff natively, even though you have to swap your startup object around to get full coverage. I wonder why they decided to do it that way? I might end up just going back to TestDriven.Net, but I'll give this a whirl and see how it goes.
 
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