TestCentric.Metadata 3.0.0

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.NET Standard 2.0 This package targets .NET Standard 2.0. The package is compatible with this framework or higher. .NET Framework 2.0 This package targets .NET Framework 2.0. The package is compatible with this framework or higher.
There is a newer version of this package available.
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dotnet add package TestCentric.Metadata --version 3.0.0                

                    
                

            
NuGet\Install-Package TestCentric.Metadata -Version 3.0.0
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package. 
<PackageReference Include="TestCentric.Metadata" Version="3.0.0" />
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package. 
paket add TestCentric.Metadata --version 3.0.0                

                    
                

            
#r "nuget: TestCentric.Metadata, 3.0.0"
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package. 
// Install TestCentric.Metadata as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=TestCentric.Metadata&version=3.0.0

// Install TestCentric.Metadata as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=TestCentric.Metadata&version=3.0.0

TestCentric Metadata

The TestCentric.Metadata library is used for accessing assembly metadata without loading the target assembly and without use of reflection. Most of the code is taken from Mono.Cecil on which it is based. The metadata may be examined but modification is not supported and there is no provision for accessing the generated code.

This library was created as part of the TestCentric engine for loading and running tests, but is suitable for use by any application, which needs to examine assembly metadata. It has no dependencies other than the appropriate Microsoft SDKs for each build.

Currently, the library is built for .NET Framework 2.0 and 4.0 and .NET Standard 1.6 and 2.0. It is available as nuget package TestCentric.Metadata on nuget.org. The package adds a reference to the library to any project in which it is installed.

History

When the TestCentric GUI project was created in 2018, it used Mono.Cecil to examine assemblies, just as NUnit did. Use of Mono.Cecil, however, came to present a number of problems for both projects. One was that the library was larger than we needed, containing a great deal of unused functionality. Another was that there seemed to be a risk in using it to examine assemblies, which themselves depended on Mono.Cecil.

Those two problems were relatively small. More important was the fact that Mono.Cecil was moving forward, dropping support for older platforms. This presented a problem for a test framework committed to continued support for tests using those platforms. While alternative solutions were possible, we eventually settled on building a subset of Mono.Cecil and modifying the code as needed so that a single build could be used by all our agents, including those which ran tests on legacy platforms.

Initially, this subset was incorporated in the TestCentric engine itself, which was separated from the GUI as a project in 2020. In the same year, we made TestCentric.Metadata a separate project and package and it began to be used by NUnit as well as TestCentric.

Versioning

TestCentric.Metadata follows semantic versioning. Versions through 1.6.2 were distributed as part of the TestCentric GUI project. Beginning with version 1.7, it became an independent package, making it easier for the library to be used in multiple projects.

Licensing

TestCentric.Metadata is Open Source software, released under the MIT / X11 license. See LICENSE in the root of the distribution for a copy of the license.

Product Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
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.NET Core netcoreapp2.0 was computed.  netcoreapp2.1 was computed.  netcoreapp2.2 was computed.  netcoreapp3.0 was computed.  netcoreapp3.1 was computed. 
.NET Standard netstandard2.0 is compatible.  netstandard2.1 was computed. 
.NET Framework net20 is compatible.  net35 was computed.  net40 was computed.  net403 was computed.  net45 was computed.  net451 was computed.  net452 was computed.  net46 was computed.  net461 was computed.  net462 was computed.  net463 was computed.  net47 was computed.  net471 was computed.  net472 was computed.  net48 was computed.  net481 was computed. 
MonoAndroid monoandroid was computed. 
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Tizen tizen40 was computed.  tizen60 was computed. 
Xamarin.iOS xamarinios was computed. 
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TestCentric.Extensibility

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nunit/nunit-console
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NUnit 3.0 Visual Studio test adapter for use under VS 2012 or later
Version Downloads Last updated
3.0.3 1,855 10/11/2024
3.0.2 5,660 2/25/2024
3.0.1 612 12/29/2023
3.0.0 468 12/29/2023
2.0.0 5,916 3/5/2023
1.7.1 164,570 10/30/2021
1.7.0 137,813 4/7/2021
1.6.4 993 12/2/2022
1.6.3 1,177 8/1/2022
1.6.2 1,121 3/25/2021
1.6.1 1,170 1/17/2021
1.6.0 1,120 1/11/2021
1.5.3 1,151 12/24/2020
1.5.2 1,202 12/17/2020
1.5.1 1,227 12/15/2020
1.5.0 1,202 12/9/2020
1.4.1 12,670 9/4/2020