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Asked: 2026-05-15T21:17:07+00:00

I am new to mocking so I might have it totally wrong here but

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I am new to mocking so I might have it totally wrong here but I believe that most mocking frameworks are interface dependent. Unfortunately most of our code is not using an interface. Now the other day I saw a Mocking framework in Java that reproduced the byte code of a class\object as to not call its internal methods but you could still test that it WAS calling these methods.

My question is: does .Net have any mocking frameworks that can do a similar thing? I am looking for something free and I don’t want something that requires methods to be virtual or abstract.

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    Microsoft Research has developed Moles for this, which is a part of Pex but can be installed independently. And it’s free. There’s a good introductory article (pdf) on the website that explains how to mock a static method. It takes some time before they get to the stuff you want (page 16, Task 3).

    Here and here (Channel 9) you can find an example on how to stub DateTime.Now. Using Moles, you can mock anything you want.

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