--- title: ASP.NET MVC TDD using Visual Studio 2010 | daily.dev description: A walkthrough demonstrates the new test-driven development workflow for ASP.NET MVC in Visual Studio 2010, showing how to write a controller test first, use... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/asp-net-mvc-tdd-using-visual-studio-2010-2idq1jkmg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: ASP.NET MVC TDD using Visual Studio 2010 | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough demonstrates the new test-driven development workflow for ASP.NET MVC in Visual Studio 2010, showing how to write a controller test first, use... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/asp-net-mvc-tdd-using-visual-studio-2010-2idq1jkmg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2idq1jkMg.png og:image:alt: ASP.NET MVC TDD using Visual Studio 2010 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ASP.NET MVC TDD using Visual Studio 2010 **[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough demonstrates the new test-driven development workflow for ASP.NET MVC in Visual Studio 2010, showing how to write a controller test first, use CTRL-. to auto-generate the DemoController class and Index action stub, run the failing test, then implement the code to make it pass. The author praises the new tooling while noting it isn't yet as capable as ReSharper. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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