I don't think Icarus watches the project file for changes yet.

Graham, what do you think of implementing an auto-reload for projects?  It
should probably prompt the user similar to how Visual Studio does it.

Jeff. 

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Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 7:52 AM
To: MbUnit.User
Subject: MbUnit Re: Affecting assembly relative paths


Thanks for the response Jeff,

That gave us some better information to base our decisions on. I think we'll
likely go with the relative paths. However, while I was validating the
working directory I noticed some confusing behavior.
When I changed the working directory and saved the project file
(.gallio) in Icarus, the working directory didn't immediately take, I had to
close the project and re-open it to get it to use the new working directory.

As I don't think we'll be taking advantage of this feature right now, it's
not of concern for me, but I was curious if that was intended behavior or
not?

Thanks again.

Mike Brown

On Sep 18, 3:06 am, "Jeff Brown" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gallio sets the application base directory and working directory to 
> the directory that contains the test assembly, by default.
>
> You can change these.
>
> It's best to leave the appbase alone (so that other assemblies can be
> loaded) but you can set the working directory to whatever you like.  
> The hint directories are just extra directories to look in for 
> referenced assemblies so they're not too relevant to this discussion 
> (unless you mess around with the appbase).
>
> Just the same, I recommend that you stick to the default behavior and 
> just keep using "..\.." prefixes on your paths.  The nice thing about 
> Gallio is that it guarantees that those relative paths are valid 
> (unless you change the default settings in some way).
>
> For my own projects, I tend to change the output directory for Debug 
> and Release builds to just be "bin" instead of "bin\Debug" and
"bing\Release".
> Then my relative paths just look like ".." and I don't have to worry 
> about the build configuration changing where files get compiled.
>
> Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On
>
> Behalf Of Dev Mike
> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:48 AM
> To: MbUnit.User
> Subject: MbUnit Affecting assembly relative paths
>
> Greetings,
>
> We're trying to create our tests so that we use relative filepaths, 
> generally speaking these paths are relative to the bin\Debug folder, 
> so we either have to include "..\..\" or we have to copy our test data 
> to the output directory.
>
> I noticed that Icarus has a few values to set which sound like what I 
> am looking for, but I've been unable to use them.
>
> So, what are the purposes of:
>
> - Application base directory
> - Working directory
> - Hint directories
>
> My hope was that he host test runner could run the assembly from an 
> alternate path, preferably the location of it's csproj file, so that 
> our relative paths could be short, sweet, and immediately understandable.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Mike


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