Just a shout to let you all know of NW-MTUG's next session on 10th March, it's on Using ASP.NET MVC 2 - Introduction to MVC & What's New and will be presented by Martha Rotter. Check out NW-MTUG's site for all the details.

I've been doing some work with the Unity IoC container recently and had to configure some generic types so I thought I'd post some of the examples here so that I'd have some to refer back to more than anything else a blog post tends to be less likely to get lost that an old post-it note.

Xml config to configure mapping for a specific generic type, note the use of [[]] to define the generic type. Inside the square brackets you specify type name and the assembly containing the type. In both example `1 signifies the generic parameter:

<type type="Data.Repository.IRepository`1[[Poco.Address, Poco]], Data.Repository"
      mapTo="Data.Repository.LinqRepository`1[[Poco.Address, Poco]], Data.Repository">
  <lifetime type="singleton"></lifetime>
</type>


Xml config to configure open generic type mapping:

<typeAlias alias="IRepository`1"            
           type="Questern.ActiveOrderManagementSystem.Data.Repository.IRepository`1, 
Questern.ActiveOrderManagementSystem.Data.Repository" />

<type type="IRepository`1"       
      mapTo="Questern.ActiveOrderManagementSystem.Data.Repository.LinqRepository`1, 
Questern.ActiveOrderManagementSystem.Data.Repository">
  <lifetime type="singleton" />
</type>

Thanks to Marceli for helping out with this!!

I seen some very good posts on this that include project and reg files necessary to set this up, however I run Vista 64 and found that the reg files didn't work for me. So after a poke around the registry I came up with the following two reg files that have done the trick for me. One for Visual Basic and one for C#.

If you want a complete description on how to register a custom testing framework with Visual Studio for use with ASP.Net MVC check out either of these links.

• http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/03/06/asp-net-mvc-test-framework-integration-demo.aspx (This one includes project and reg files)
  
• http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/02/18/asp-net-mvc-test-framework-integration.aspx

This zip file contains registry keys for C# and VB.NET: