Question

Does anyone know how to test private functions in a Silverlight Unit Test project? The *_Accessor objects don’t seem to be available that are their in a normal unit testing project.

Answer 1

You cannot unit-test private functions. You have 3 options:

1. You can make those functions ‘public’ and test them,
2. You make them ‘internal’ and add the InternalsVisibleTo attribute in the assembly file.
3. You create a public or internal method that calls your private methods, and test those.

Unit testing is usually done to test the interface of classes to the outside world. Unit testing private methods is not recommended.