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After installing TestDriven.NET you will find a number of new menu items on the right-click context menu as shown in Figure 1 . You can right-click directly on a unit test and run it. The results will be displayed in the output window as shown in Figure 2 .

Figure 2 Output of a Unit Test

While executing unit tests in the IDE is invaluable by itself, perhaps the best feature is that you can also quickly launch into the debugger by right-clicking on a test and selecting Test With | Debugger. This will launch the debugger and then execute your unit tests, hitting any breakpoints you have set in those tests.

In fact, it doesn't even have to be a unit test for TestDriven.NET to execute it. You could just as easily test any public method that returns void. This means that if you are testing an old app and need to walk through some code, you can write a quick test and execute it right away.