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Typemock Isolator 9.4 is here built to keep your team ahead as the .NET ecosystem accelerates.
This release focuses on platform compatibility, developer experience, and test-runner stability, with deep updates to our core, SmartRunner and our installer.
Whether you’re testing complex legacy systems or pushing into .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2026 Insiders, this update makes your workflow smoother, faster, and more predictable.
We now support the newest runtimes and IDEs:
This means you can upgrade your development environment without breaking your test suite.
# Installing the latest version Install-Package Typemock.Isolator -Version 9.4.0
SmartRunner now runs under the same .NET runtime as your test project.
Previously, mismatched runtimes could cause inconsistent behavior especially in multi-TFM solutions.
Now SmartRunner aligns itself automatically:
This significantly improves test reliability.
<PropertyGroup> <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework> </PropertyGroup> <!-- SmartRunner automatically uses net8.0 too -->
We’ve upgraded the Auto mode to make smarter decisions when choosing the architecture at runtime.
This eliminates cases where SmartRunner unnecessarily launched as x86.
Result: fewer edge-case failures and more predictable behavior in mixed architecture environments.
A major theme in this release is predictability.
We improved:
If you’ve ever managed enterprise rollouts of extensions, you’ll feel the difference immediately.
We updated:
Isolator 9.4 includes targeted fixes in SmartRunner, the installer, and the Visual Studio extension.
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Marshal.ReleaseComObject codeThis release reflects weeks of internal testing across multiple TFMs and architectures.
This version includes a fully modernized NuGet package structure:
We also simplified TFM mappings so all modern .NET versions share a consistent dependency set.
Typemock Isolator 9.4 is available now:
👉 Download: https://www.typemock.com/download-isolator
👉 NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Typemock.Isolator
👉 Docs: https://www.typemock.com/docs
Whether you’re maintaining a massive legacy system or building tomorrow’s .NET applications, Isolator continues to be the most powerful mocking framework ever created.
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Voice is a challenging topic to write about. Do we mean the sound of the words on the page? The unique quality inherent to each authors writing style? The quality of writing that makes a character live on the page and memorable long after the book has been put aside? Or do we mean some magic melding of the three and something more besides. There are some few books that address the topic directly and even more that circle around the topic like its a sleeping bear in the room, best not talk about it too directly or it might wake up and then where would we be?
Some few books do take on that challenge directly. This is my list of those intrepid tomes that dare to attempt to teach what many say cannot be taught. Rest assured voice can be learned and even deliberately refined, but it takes work. My best advice, as in other lists is to not just read the books but do the exercises. You'll find your writing better for it over time.
List Criteria: Books that either focus on voice as the main topic, or have a major section on the topic.
Through interviews with authors, research, and his own analysis Ben Yagoda dives deep on what it means to develop your own voice. A single topic book that dives deep into the various aspects of voice, but skips the exercises in favor of more perspectives. Overall a useful book to getting many perspectives on the topic.
James Scott Bell’s exercises are rooted in the theater world and are all about making characters memorable, emotions more relatable, and hitting the right notes for your genre. This is a quick read with most of the back half of the work given over to genre examples so it's a good option if you are looking for quick advice with some depth behind it.
If you want to make your words sing and speak with a thousand tongues then you’ll want to work through the exercises in Steering the Craft. The text will guide you through how to select a point-of view, how to keep your prose interesting, and indeed how to distinguish your writing from other writers. Just steer clear of the advice on writing groups in the last chapter.
If you saw the title of this article and thought it would be about speaking out and taking a stance, you need to read Charlie Jane Anders. She has lots of practical advice on staying sane while incorporating politics and fighting for what you believe with your fiction, plus all the usual things about building unique stories and characters that will let your readers escape to new lands.
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I am writing this in the Denver airport, on my way to the Writer Unboxed Unconference in Santa Fe. By the time you read it I’ll be most of the way through a week of writing workshops. I plan to bring back a ton of new tidbits and tools and maybe a few more writing books.
I love traveling, yes for the exciting new places, but I love the in-between times too. There’s nothing quite so liminal as an airport or train station. October is an especially liminal time, poised between seasons, and as All-Hallows Eve approaches, between worlds. This Month's reading report features craft articles from Ilona Andrews and C.L. Polk, a 2,000 year-old copper skeletong and 100 word memoirs. Happy Reading ~EM
My short story "Trade Value" is in this amazing shared world anthology, telling the story of a colony abandoned on a world of two-meter-long bugs, giant fish, terror chickens, and the people who made it their home. Links to other retailers will be along in a few weeks.
