This is an add-in for Fody

Change all members to virtual as part of your build.

Introduction to Fody

The nuget package

https://nuget.org/packages/Virtuosity.Fody/

PM> Install-Package Virtuosity.Fody

What it actually does to your assembly

Selects all members that meet the following criteria

• from non sealed classes
• non static members
• non abstract members
• non private members
• non virtual members

Change them to virtual

For all (now virtual) members

• change calls to those members to virtual
• change new modifiers to override modifiers

Configuration Options

Exclude types with an Attribute

If for some reason you want to skip a specific class you can mark it with a DoNotVirtualizeAttribute.

Since no reference assembly is shipped with Virtuosity. Just add the below class to your assembly. Namespace does not matter.

public class DoNotVirtualizeAttribute : Attribute
{
}

So your class will look like this

[DoNotVirtualize]
public class ClassToSkip
{
    ...
}

Include or exclude namespaces

These config options are access by modifying the Virtuosity node in FodyWeavers.xml

ExcludeNamespaces

A list of namespaces to exclude.

Can not be defined with IncludeNamespaces.

Can take two forms.

As an element with items delimited by a newline.

<Virtuosity>
    <ExcludeNamespaces>
        Foo
        Bar
    </ExcludeNamespaces>
</Virtuosity>

Or as a attribute with items delimited by a pipe |.

<Virtuosity ExcludeNamespaces='Foo|Bar'/>

IncludeNamespaces

A list of namespaces to include.

Can not be defined with ExcludeNamespaces.

Can take two forms.

As an element with items delimited by a newline.

<Virtuosity>
    <IncludeNamespaces>
        Foo
        Bar
    </IncludeNamespaces>
</Virtuosity>

Or as a attribute with items delimited by a pipe |.

<Virtuosity IncludeNamespaces='Foo|Bar'/>

Why is this useful

If you are coding in .net you will have used or heard of one of the following tools

• NHibernate
• Rhino Mocks
• Moq
• Ninject
• NSubstitute
• Entity Framework

Well all these tools make use of DynamicProxy. DynamicProxy allows for runtime interception of members. The one caveat is that all intercepted members must be virtual. This means that that all the above tools, to some extent, require members to be virtual.

• [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg715120(v=vs.103).aspx] "One of the requirements for lazy loading proxy creation is that the navigation properties must be declared virtual"
• Must Everything Be Virtual With NHibernate?
• RhinoMocks Why methods need to be declared virtual
• [http://groups.google.com/group/moqdisc/browse_thread/thread/2e02e367d017f274 Moq My method needs to be virtual?]
• "NMock supports mocking of classes with virtual methods"
• Ninject Important Note:Your methods/properties to be intercepted must be virtual!
• NSubstitute:Some operations on non virtual members should throw an exception

If you forget to mark something as virtual these tools will not work and fail in sometimes very unhelpful ways. So rather than having to remember to use the virtual keyword Virtuosity means members will be virtual by default.

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