Getting MSpec working with Visual Studio 2012 RC & R# 7 EAP

These are the steps are used to get MSpec working with the release candidate for Visual Studio 2012 and the EAP for Resharper 7.

I'm using the build 64 (09/06/2012) of R# 7 EAP - latest releases can be found here.

Firstly, I have the following MSpec style fixture shown below, as you can see the Resharper icons aren't showing up on the left hand side:

The next step is to add the correct Nuget package for MSpec - you have to get the pre-release version, not the current production release. I installed it using the package manager console in Visual Studio - don't forget the '-Pre' suffix to get the right version of the package:

At this point you're probably thinking you're good-to-go, but there's one important step left - the pre-release MSpec assemblies have to be copied to the app data folder for Resharper. Luckily the MSpec guys have this in-hand and have created a set of batch files as part of the Nuget package installer. Browse to where the Nuget package was installed for your solution and run the 'InstallResharperRunner.7.0 - VS2011' batch file:

You should then be seeing the following assemblies to the Resharper plugin folder:

Running up Visual Studio you should see the Resharper icons on the left hand-side and be able to run any MSpec fixtures, as you can see this one is failing :)

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