EF4 - possible to mock ObjectContext for unit testing?

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Published on 2010-04-24T03:24:47Z Indexed on 2010/04/24 3:33 UTC
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Can it be done without using TypeMock Islolator? I've found a few suggestions online such as passing in a metadata only connection string, however nothing I've come across besides TypeMock seems to truly allow for a mock ObjectContext that can be injected into services for unit testing. Do I plunk down the $$ for TypeMock, or are there alternatives? Has nobody managed to create anything comparable to TypeMock that is open source?

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