Can Microsoft Fakes be used in Visual Studio 2010

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We have developers using Visual Studio 2010 professional and some trying out Visual Studio 2012. Project compatibility between the two versions has been good.

Will a Visual Studio project still be compatible with 2010 if we introduce the new Fakes Framework for unit testing?

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Currently Microsoft Fakes does not work in VS 2010. Project will compile however tests which use Fakes throw NotSupportedException with following stack trace.

at Microsoft.QualityTools.Testing.Fakes.UnitTestIsolation.UnitTestIsolationRuntime.InvokeEvent(T value, Action`1 eh)
at Microsoft.QualityTools.Testing.Fakes.UnitTestIsolation.UnitTestIsolationRuntime.OnAttachedUnsupportedMethod(MethodBase method)
at Microsoft.QualityTools.Testing.Fakes.UnitTestIsolation.UnitTestIsolationRuntime.CheckInstrumentation(MethodBase method)
at Microsoft.QualityTools.Testing.Fakes.UnitTestIsolation.UnitTestIsolationRuntime.InternalAttachDetour(Object optionalReceiver, MethodBase method, Delegate detourDelegate)
at Microsoft.QualityTools.Testing.Fakes.UnitTestIsolation.UnitTestIsolationRuntime.AttachDetour(Object optionalReceiver, MethodBase method, Delegate detourDelegate)

I would suggest to use Moles, which is the prior version of Microsoft Fakes. Here is great article about moving from Moles to Fakes.

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Git – .gitignore for Visual Studio Projects and Solutions

See the official GitHub's "Collection of useful .gitignore templates".

The .gitignore for Visual Studio can be found here:
https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/VisualStudio.gitignore

Visual-studio – Visual Studio 2010 always thinks project is out of date, but nothing has changed

For Visual Studio/Express 2010 only. See other (easier) answers for VS2012, VS2013, etc

To find the missing file(s), use info from the article Enable C++ project system logging to enable debug logging in Visual Studio and let it just tell you what's causing the rebuild:

Open the devenv.exe.config file (found in %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ or in %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\). For Express versions the config file is named V*Express.exe.config.

Add the following after the </configSections> line:

<system.diagnostics>
  <switches>
    <add name="CPS" value="4" />
  </switches>
</system.diagnostics>

Restart Visual Studio
Open up DbgView and make sure it's capturing debug output
Try to debug (hit F5 in Visual Studio)
Search the debug log for any lines of the form:

devenv.exe Information: 0 : Project 'Bla\Bla\Dummy.vcxproj' not up to date because build input 'Bla\Bla\SomeFile.h' is missing.

(I just hit Ctrl+F and searched for not up to date) These will be the references causing the project to be perpetually "out of date".

To correct this, either remove any references to the missing files from your project, or update the references to indicate their actual locations.

Note: If using 2012 or later then the snippet should be:

<system.diagnostics>
  <switches>
   <add name="CPS" value="Verbose" />
  </switches>
</system.diagnostics>

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