What is the advantage of other testing libraries over versions of Visual Studio 2008?

Question

Or in another way, is there any reason to install NUnit or any other library and use it instead of the one that comes with Visual Studio 2008?

Answer 1

We used MS testing tools since VS2005, and I really saw NUnit as a replacement at some point due to some problems we had with MS tools. Here are some of my findings:

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

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Answer 7

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