Data Driven Test on Visual Studio using a complex serialized object

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I wonder if what I want to do is possible. I have a unit test driven by a xml, as follow :

[DataSource("Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.DataSource.XML", 
            "|DataDirectory|\\MyFile.xml", 
            "TestMember", 
            DataAccessMethod.Sequential)]
[DeploymentItem("MyFile.xml")]
[TestMethod]
public void Hello()
{
    ...
}

where MyFile.xml looks like this :

<TestMembers>
  <TestMember>
    <Name>Hello</Name>
    <id>1234</id>
    <MyComplexRow>
      <MySerializedInstanceOfClass>
        <BooleanProperty>true</BooleanProperty>
        <IntProperty>8</IntProperty>
        <MySerializedInstanceOfAnotherClass>
          <int>23</int>
          <bool>false</bool>
          <double>8.0</double>
        </MySerializedInstanceOfAnotherClass>
      </MySerializedInstanceOfClass>
    </MyComplexRow>
  </TestMember>
</TestMembers>

Now the problem is that accessing TestContext.DataRow["Name"] works fine, but I can't access the TestContext.DataRow["ComplexRow"], I get a Column 'MyComplexRow' does not belong to table TestMember. because it's not a "scalar", but has many dimensions...

So, is there any way I could trick Visual Studio to let him know he's dealing with a serialized instance of an existing class ? Like, extending an existing class perhaps.

I know I could wrap it all up in CDATA and then deserialize it, but, well, it's not as elegant.

Thanks !

asked 36 secs ago

Neuschwanstein

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