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The latest version of the .NET Core addin for Xamarin Studio and MonoDevelop now supports .NET Core Test Runners.

Xamarin Studio uses the .NET Core test communication protocol to support .NET Core test runners. This protocol provides a way to discover and run the unit tests provided by a .NET Core test runner.

When Xamarin Studio finds a testRunner in the project.json file it will attempt to discover the unit tests for that project.

{
    "version": "1.1.0-*",

    "testRunner": "nunit",

    "dependencies": {,
        "NUnit": "3.4.0",
        "dotnet-test-nunit": "3.4.0-beta-1"
    },

    "frameworks": {
        "netcoreapp1.0": {
            "imports": [
                "netcoreapp1.0",
                "portable-net45+win8"
            ],
            "dependencies": {
                "Microsoft.NETCore.App": {
                    "version": "1.0.0-*",
                    "type": "platform"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

The discovered tests are then shown in the Unit Tests window.

After building the project the Unit Tests window will discover any new tests that have been added.

Tests can be run by clicking Run All or by right clicking a test in the Unit Tests window and selecting Run Test.

The test results are shown in the Test Results window.

Console output from the test runner is shown in the Application Output window.

Debugging the unit tests is not yet supported.

xUnit and NUnit provide .NET Core test runners and both of these are supported in Xamarin Studio. More information can be found in existing tutorials on how to use these test runners:

• NUnit 3 Tests for .NET Core RC2 and ASP.NET Core RC2
• Getting started with xUnit.net (.NET Core / ASP.NET Core)

July is a crazy busy month! To start, Xamarin Dev Days is starting to roll out to cities all over…

One thing I’ve found not much information out there on is how to build your own copy of Xamarin.Forms and use it in your application. With just a little effort I was able to setup Visual Studio Team Services to build my fork of Xamarin.Forms and deploy a NuGet package to our private feed on MyGet. I think people out there are probably interested in setting this up, especially if you have a project pushing Xamarin.Forms to its limits.