Testing UI with MsTest - winforms

With NUnit, I could use NUnitForms to test the UI. It's massively cumbersome, but it gets the job done.
Is there something similar for MsTest for the version shipping in VS2008?

For VS2008 use white http://white.codeplex.com/

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Switching from Web UI testing to Windows Forms application testing

I have been using Selenium (WebDriver) for some time now, utilising Microsoft Team Foundation Server (VS2010, Microsoft Test Manager, Lab Management) to trigger my automated tests on specified builds. This has been working great and I have even written a wrapper framework to allow for a lot of re-usability and switching to WatiN should it be needed.
My issue is, now the applications I am to test are Windows Forms (with infragistics and Teecharts), not Web Applications, and I am under the impression from my research that both Selenium and WatiN will now be inappropriate. I have been reading about NUnitForms and White as they appear to be common free choices amongst SO posts asking a similar question. However, I am wondering if anyone has had experience with setting up TFS with automated UI tests for a Windows Forms Application?
Or, failing that, has anyone used Visual Studio 2010 with a free Windows Forms UI testing package and had some success? My plan is to try White/NUnitForms next week, but though I would look for some personal recounts just in case this is not worth pursuing.
After some more reading and checking around SO, I have found a few more helpful links. I am still at a loss as to a solid way to do things but am confident it can be done.
The following links I found helpful; winforms Post on SO, Continuous Integration in White Documentation (I missed this initially somehow...), and as a further look I found utilising NUnit with White TFS is fully supported for my needs. NUnit with TFS can be found here.
Hope this helps anyone in the same position, and I welcome any further answers as I still have not commenced any actual testing.
EDIT:
Have decided to use White with NUnit as NUnit has a lot of documentation with results integrated with TFS and White is somewhat of a wrapper to Visual Studio's Automation Tools.

Automated Silverlight 5 Unit testing for business logic

Our team is using Silverlight 5 for development as it has features we require going forward. I have discovered that NUnit doesn't work as standard as it isn't Silverlight and that the tools available for Silverlight testing appear to primarily be aimed at running within browsers and are a pain to automate it seems.
However a lot of the code I want to test is the View Models which aren't specifically Silverlight, so I was hoping there is a way of using NUnit or similar to just test this and integrating into a build server (which is currently being decided upon)
So, is it possible to test Silverlight in this way?
I haven't tried it but looks interesting:
http://statlight.codeplex.com/
and what about third parties (maybe Telerik offers something on their testing suite).
I know it's no ideal, but if it's just VM and non dependant on UI you can link the files to a WPF project and execute the unit tests (in our case we had to share two versions the SL and the WPF one that's why we chose to test our VM in the WPF version :-)).
The unit testing from Silverlight (toolkit) I haven't found a way to link it to an automated build process
The best solution I have found is AgUnit:
http://agunit.codeplex.com/
AgUnit is an open source plugin for ReSharper. This solution of course assumes that you're using ReSharper. AgUnit allows you to run Silverlight unit tests in the ReSharper test running. Unfortunately, I just checked the AgUnit site and it looks like they only support Silverlight 5. You may want to head over there and find out about their plans for supporting Silverlight 5 though as it is a great plugin.
Prior to using AgUnit, we were using Statlight and found it to be pretty good as well, just not quite as convenient as AgUnit.

Script-Run Silverlight Test Project

I have a solution with several Silverlight Test Projects. I would like to have some kind of script or tool with the ability of running all these test projects and generating some kind of report (any simple output will work)
I googled around for some time but I was unable to find any existent solution other than running the projects one by one from Visual Studio.
Has someone came across this situation before? Any idea on how to implement such a tool?
Regards
If you need automated testing then Test Manager is a tool from Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/test-professional/overview
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb385901.aspx
and use with silverlight
http://jugalpanchal.blogspot.com/2011/09/configure-test-manager-for-silverlight.html
Use StatLight! http://statlight.codeplex.com It's a Silverlight Test Project runner exe that you can invoke from the cmdline. Its great and can be integrated into TFS Workflows as well as Msbuild.

Can you have MsTests and Windows-forms functional tests live in the same project file?

I've been asked to investigate the possibility of using a single .csproj file to run both interactive and unit tests. I've been able to get the windows forms project changed over to run msTests but now I'm not finding a way to run the windows forms/interactive side. Is there a way to do this?
There are only 2 methods I've found for what my team was looking for. nUnit instead of MsTests, or manually executing the /debug built win-forms executable and then attaching the debugger to it. So nice clean integration using MsTests/VS2010 is out the window.

Resharper support for Silverlight Unit Test Application

HI All
Is there a version of Reshaper that can be used to run Silverlight unit test. I am using Resharper 4.5 although it shows test icons against test methods in the class, but it does actually run the test.
Thanks
I'm the author of the AgUnit plugin.
Silverlight 3 support is currently working if you build the plugin from source, a new release is coming in the next couple of weeks.
If you want to run the tests on a build server, you should take a look at StatLight: http://statlight.codeplex.com/ You should be able to set it up easily with TeamCity.
Update: Silverlight 3 support should be working in the new 0.2 release of AgUnit.
I doubt it, although I am happy to be proven wrong. The test runner for MS Silverlight Unit Test suite is actually a Silverlight app, that runs in the browser. This is done in order to simulate the Silverlight runtime environment, which is different from desktop runtime.
Try this:
http://agunit.codeplex.com/

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