Question

When running a unit test, the configuration file is not read properly.
However, when running from a console appplication context, the config file is read.

In the code below, when accessing var section after the assignment, it’s null when running the test TestIoCInit() and not null when calling InitIoC() from console application.

    [TestMethod]
    public void TestIocInit()
    {
        InitIoC();
    }
    internal static void InitIoC()
    {
        IUnityContainer unityContainer = new UnityContainer(); // the host app domain creates the unity container and pass it to the resolver, the resolver is a static member of IoC class, thus the container is static

        ServiceLocator.SetLocatorProvider(unityContainer);

        var section = (UnityConfigurationSection)ConfigurationManager.GetSection("unity");
        section.Configure(unityContainer);

        var unityResolver = new UnityDependencyResolver(unityContainer);
        IoC.Initialize(unityResolver);
        new IoCTypeRegistrationTask(unityContainer).Execute();
    }

Appreciate your help!

Answer 1

I ended up adding a new class library project, and adding the [TestClass] attribute to it.
It worked perfectly without having have to copy the app.config file.
Thanks.