I'm currently playing around with the Orcas Beta 2 and C# 3.0. As I'm experimenting with the new object initialization feature in C#, I'm wondering which coding style will be applicable and will prevail.

So here is the style from the C# 3.0 specification:

But I'm not sure if this will be the best choice most of the time. So here some other styles to vote for:

or

or (my favorite for now)

The time will tell which version really will be used by the majority of the developers.

James Newkirk released a new unit-testing framework called xUnit.net. While I have a lot og respect for the the developers James and Brad, I can't see the real motivation for building another .NET testing framework.

Here is a list of the included features:

• Single Object instance per Test Method
• No [SetUp] or [TearDown]
• No [ExpectedException]
• Aspect-Like Functionality
• Reducing the Number of Custom Attributes
• Use of Generics
• Anonymous Delegates
• Assert extensibility
• Test method extensibility
• Test class extensibility
  

I recently switched from NUnit to mbUnit in my projects. It turned out to be a non-event and I'm pretty happy with mbUnit and the additional features it provides. Anyway, I can't see any reasons to switch to another testing framework.

Congratulations and many thanks to Hammett and all the guys who contribute to the Castle Project. Great work!

Read the announcement here and the change log here.