Tech.It.To.Me->{By.Anton.Perez}

I was getting this error when running one of my unit tests:

Unit Test Adapter threw exception: The type initializer for ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestConfiguration’ threw an exception.
Unable to cast object of type ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestConfigurationSection’ to type ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestConfigurationSection’.

The issue was due to a versioning problem in the .config file (I upgraded to VS 2008).  The section that you’ll want to change is Version=8.0.0.0 to Version=9.0.0.0:

<section name=”microsoft.visualstudio.testtools” type=”Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestConfigurationSection, Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=…”/>

Hope this helps.

I’m posting this for archival purposes, as I had to figure it out myself…

Windows PowerShell doesn’t appear in Add/Remove Programs nor is there an uninstall shortcut in the Programs menu.  So the way to do it uninstall is to check the Show updates option in Add/Remove Programs.

Peace!  \m/

You can check out the virtual launch for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 here.

You never know…Steve Ballmer may have another “developers, developers, developers” sweaty-armpit-speech. And why it’s called Heroes Happen Here, I don’t know. It’s worth looking into though.

Just sign up with your Windows Live/Passport account and you can download all three e-books by Microsoft Press.  It includes the following:

Enjoy!

For MSDN subscribers, you can now download VS Team System 2008 RTM on the MSDN site (x86 and x64 WoW - DVD).

Have fun!