unable to mock in unittesting on windows app?

[Charlemagne65]

Install-Package : Could not install package 'Moq 4.2.1312.1622'. You are trying to install this package into a project that targets '.NETCore,Version=v4.5.1', but the package does not contain any assembly references or content file s that are compatible with that framework. For more information, contact the package author. At line:1 char:1

• Install-Package Moq

• 
  - CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Install-Package], InvalidOperationException
  - FullyQualifiedErrorId : NuGetCmdletUnhandledException,NuGet.PowerShell.Commands.InstallPackageCommand

I would like using moq in a Windows Store App. But this is the message I get from the NUGet PM.

What is going wrong?

[Charlemagne65]

Sorry this was my command to the NUGet console:

PM> Install-Package Moq

Installing 'Moq 4.2.1312.1622'. Successfully installed 'Moq 4.2.1312.1622'. Adding 'Moq 4.2.1312.1622' to Generator. Uninstalling 'Moq 4.2.1312.1622'. Successfully uninstalled 'Moq 4.2.1312.1622'. Install failed. Rolling back...

[kzu]

Windows Store apps do not support dynamic code emitting (which is what Moq and all other dynamic proxy-based frameworks use), as noted in MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windows/apps/hh441595(v=vs.110).aspx

So Moq4 cannot support this platform.

[Charlemagne65]

Ok,

what are my alternatives besides writing my mocking classes manually?

[stakx]

@Chakotay - this issue is super old, but just for the record, Moq 5 will likely support this scenario.