using MS Fakes safely

MS Fakes can generate something called "Shims" which can override virtuals, and "Stubs" which can override anything, including statics and members of sealed classes.

If you decide to use them, I recommend using these rules:

Only generate the fakes you care about

Use Disable, Clear, and !.

<StubGeneration Disable="true"/>

<ShimGeneration>
  <Clear/>
    <Add FullName="Foo.Bar!" />

Enable diagnostics:

<Fakes xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/fakes/2011/" Diagnostic="true">

Treat Fakes warnings as errors

Sadly, there's no easy way to do this. Edit:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\Fakes\Microsoft.QualityTools.Testing.Fakes.targets

Target BuildFakesAssemblies, the GenerateFakes task sets the FakesMessages property, which you always want to be blank, so add:

<Error Condition="@(FakesMessages) != '' Text="Error generating fakes" />