I figure I would share this as I’ve been having a heck of a time adding the NUnit test framework to ASP.NET MVC project in VS2008 Professional.  I’m running Windows 7 RTM 64-bit and most of the examples on the web don’t take into account the differences associated with a 64-bit OS.  So keep in mind this template is for a 64-bit OS, specifically Windows 7. 

To start, the path in the registry where the NUnit entries need to get added is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\MVC\TestProjectTemplates\NUnit\C#

Also, the template zip file needs to get copied to the following folder:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\CSharp\Test\1033

A lot of people instruct people to place it one directory above the one I listed, which wouldn’t work for some reason.  I zipped everything up so just download the zip file, unzip it, and run the regnunittomvc.bat to install.  Also keep in mind that this will work with any version of NUnit.  I just installed this with NUnit 2.5.2.9222 and it worked beautifully.  I also included Rhino.Mocks with this template also (version 3.6).  Enjoy.

I guess Microsoft wanted to generate some excitement at MIX09 so it looks as if they released the final version for ASP.NET MVC 1.0.  You can download it here from Microsoft Downloads.

For those of you new to ASP.NET MVC, David Hayden has compiled a list of ASP.NET MVC Sample Web Applications.  This is a great place to visit if you’re just starting out with ASP.NET MVC.

Doug