Question

I usually use NUnit as a UnitTest Framework ,however where I work now they use solely MSTest .
In Nunit I could use the following:

    [FixtureSetup]
    public override void MainSetup()
    {
        _serviceHost = new ServiceHost(typeof(PersonService));
        _serviceHost.Open();
     }
     [FixtureTearDown]
     public override void MainTeardown()
     {
        _serviceHost.Close();
     }

I have noticed that in MSTest if you want to initialize for the duration of all test and close after all tests have run you have to use below STATIC method and as you know I cannot use my class anymore.
The below method will crash!!!

    [ClassInitialize()]
    public static void MyClassInitialize(TestContext testContext)
    {
        _serviceHost = new ServiceHost(typeof(PersonService));
        _serviceHost.Open();
    }

How can I initialize my service Host once and close after all the test have run in MSTest?

Thanks for any suggestions

Answer 1

If you make the _serviceHost variable static too, you should be safe.