This java technology stack in .net?

Question

Having worked for Java for 7 years I'm now moving into a project in .net. The team I'm working in have recently used a technology stack that we are fairly happy with in the business layer and below:

• Spring for dependency injection, transaction management, security and for adding interceptors and for getting the possibility to inject different implementations of interfaces when in unit-test as oppose to deployed on a server.
• JUnit for unit tests.
• JPA/Hibernate for ORM

Could you use this stack in .net? I've heard of nHibernate, spring.net and nUnit.

Are these the translations into .net? or are those projects dead, bad implementations or what?

Are there other superior techniques/frameworks?

Appreciate your thougts!

Answer 1

You nailed it - NHibernate, Spring.NET and NUnit are all widely used frameworks on the .NET side that compliment their sister frameworks on the java side.

None of those projects are anywhere near dead. I think NUnit just released a new version last month, actually.

Answer 2

I would recommend xUnit.net over nUnit. It has a rationalised approach and some very nice features which set it apart from the other frameworks.

Assert.Throws() is just wonderful (beats [ExpectedException] hands down) and the Extensions assembly provides [Theory] which, combined with [InlineData()], is incredibly powerful. For more info see the project homepage