Github and Azure DevOps specialist, Visual Studio Development Technologies MVP and NUnit core team member
When your TFS/VSTS CI build is also used for a pull request, you often want to enable more checks before you let this go into the master (or any target) branch, and fail the build if these raise warnings. It can be extra tests you want to run, code quality checks, process checks, and you Continue Reading →
User dumps are powerful diagnostics you can enable when an application crashes, and in particular when you see no obvious reason for it to crash. In my case I have been struggling with Visual Studio crashes, and have been reporting these back to Microsoft. The devs there love user dumps, because they show the exact Continue Reading →
The Visual Studio Test Explorer can be a bit picky about showing tests. There are multiple reasons for why they don’t always show up when you expect them to do, and most of the cases are PEBKAC type of issues. That doesn’t mean it is easy, there are just becoming too many variations, and Visual Continue Reading →
Visual Studio 2017 lack a proper internal terminal. The Command Line extension has been a good substitute, but it opens up in a separate window. If you work with multiple Visual Studio at the same time, you loose track of which command window belongs to which Visual Studio instance. Visual Studio Code has it’s own Continue Reading →
The Visual Studio Test Explorer user interface have been nearly the same since 2012, with only a few minor updates. One thing that have annoyed a few people are how the test names are displayed. The Test Explorer have got a bit of critique on this, but it is not that hardcoded. It can be Continue Reading →
Introduction You have all seen it, you have all done it: Written code using the static methods from the System.IO namespace for handling directories and files. Or, you are maintaining legacy code where that usage is common in certain places. And now the code is huge, you have no unit tests, because unit testing classes Continue Reading →
When you do test runs with the Test Explorer in Visual Studio, you can select to use either a x86 or a x64 test runner. Now, if you select to create an AnyCPU target for that component, it will not matter which one you choose, but if you select a target x86 or x64, the Continue Reading →
Download: IFix 1.7 When I start creating a new solution I normally want this in its own git repository, and I catch myself adding the same stuff over and over again. And, I often get the folder structures wrong, I seem to never get the hang of when and where Visual Studio creates a folder Continue Reading →
This post is written for those going from TFS Version Control to Git, and is an introduction to a smart improvement in Visual Studio 2015 – Commit Amend. Command Line enthusiasts already know how this is done, but it may still be useful to see how this is resolved in Visual Studio. In TFS VC Continue Reading →
There has been an issue with growing databases due to test data and test attachments not being deleted. I have an earlier blogpost ( also here) on how to fix this, using a tool called Test Attachment Cleaner, and also containing a set of scripts you can run on your server to check on how Continue Reading →
Caches On Windows:
%LocalAppData%\NuGet\Cache
%UserProfile%\.nuget\packages
To clear: nuget locals all --clear
Feed url: https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json
VSTest
NUnitAdapter, use runsettings
From admin prompt:
Start powershell:
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/visual-studio-sdks
Add this tag to the initial propertygroup
AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath
Set value to false