I’ve been writing a lot of C# lately, and paying a lot of attention to my test coverage while I’m at it. Everything was going great until I wanted to use the FolderDialogBrowser to let my users select a directory.

FolderDialogBrowser implements IDisposable, so I naturally reached for a Using block.

using (var folderPicker = new FolderBrowserDialog)
{
    if (folderPicker.ShowDialog() != DialogResult.OK)
    {
        return;
    }

    //...
}

Then I stopped dead. I can’t do that. This will display a GUI and any hope of running automated tests against this method is lost. Read the rest of this entry »