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+<h2>Multiple-Assembly Support</h2>
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+<p>Since version 2.1, NUnit has allowed loading suites of tests from multiple assemblies in both
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+saved as files of type '.nunit'. In either case, a top-level suite is constructed, which contains
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+an example of this usage.</p>
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+<p>The gui runner does not support specifying multiple assemblies on the command-line.
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+case they will replace any assemblies already loaded.</p>
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+files with the extension .nunit containing information about the assemblies to be loaded. The
+following is an example of a hypothetical test project file:</p>
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+<pre>&lt;NUnitProject&gt;
+ &lt;Settings activeconfig="Debug"/&gt;
+ &lt;Config name="Debug"&gt;
+ &lt;assembly path="LibraryCore\bin\Debug\Library.dll"/&gt;
+ &lt;assembly path="LibraryUI\bin\Debug\LibraryUI.dll"/&gt;
+ &lt;/Config&gt;
+ &lt;Config name="Release"&gt;
+ &lt;assembly path="LibraryCore\bin\Release\Library.dll"/&gt;
+ &lt;assembly path="LibraryUI\bin\Release\LibraryUI.dll"/&gt;
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+<p>In the past, test writers have been able to rely on the current directory being set to the
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+to set the current directory to the directory containing each assembly whenever any test from that
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