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Visual Studio: A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
Testing: The act or process of applying tests as a means of analysis or diagnosis.
VB 2010 , when create new EXE , why windows 10 security say its not virus and windows 11 say its virus file I create a new exe in vb 2010 or vb 2019 I use this setting also <requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator"…
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VS2019 was fine on my small project. I found my problem to be close to https://godbolt.org/z/Y1xoGPMba reported one year ago without answer here…
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Hi, We built mobile app project to DLL file. How to ensure that the executable file is fine to be run on Android or the other OS? How to do the relevant change on the existing VS project for running it on Android or the other OS?
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Hello! I'm having trouble running jUnit tests. The "Enable Junit Tests" button does not show up for me, however it was working previously to this day. I have some super simple code for an example: public class Greet { public String…
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Hi, I'm using Visual Studio 2022 to develop some WPF/XAML applications - i've previously been developing C# and python - and am now seeing an intermittent error when editing XAML files that i have not seen before: A popup that says: "Value does…
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I find the most recent combo of VS2022 and copilot have gotten much better at writing unit tests. They have gone from doing 40-50% of the work to perhaps 80%, depending on the complexity of the class (I am using C#) I use a prompt like "using mstest…
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Hello, we are running vstest.console in Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise Edition on a Hyper-V Windows 11 24H2 virtual machine, and we randomly get the blocking messagebox you see in the screenshot below, does anyone know the cause of that and how to fix…
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I have to set up a training version of a production system so that employees from a sister company can train on it before having to use the production system. I have made things as near identical as I can, but the thing that is bugging me at the moment…
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How do I extract test point support as part of a test plan summary report? I do not see this option within the current enhanced reporting, except to include attachments from the work item itself and not the test run.
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After upgrading visual studio 2022 to 17.12.4, for .net 8 test project which is using MSTest and Xunit at same time, it always fails to execute tests from test explorer. The error message is like below: "Unable to connect to testing platform runner…
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I created a project in Visual Studio 2022. I created a node.js web application using the "Blank node.js web application" template. I want to create a unit test. What is the recommended way to do that? I hit problems following an article that…
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What is causing this error? Building Test Projects Starting test discovery for requested test run ========== Starting test discovery ========== You must install or update .NET to run this application. App:…
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Need to store code changes for each application change that will occur. Visual Studio 2022 "Compare with ..." produces the output I need to store but I don't know a way to print/export (save to a file) the compare window. Screenshots are not an…
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We are executing selenium tests using maven and the output of our task is a very standard JUNIT output. We do see a tab added to out build output with the test results which is helpful, now we need the output as we run the tests, how can we achieve that?…
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How to export test results (outcome) to Excel in Azure DevOps? Google returns: "To export test results from Azure DevOps, you can use the built-in functionality within the Test Plans section, which allows you to export test cases and results…
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To properly set up encryption keys for a software implementation, you must first determine whether you need to use symmetric or asymmetric algorithms. Symmetric algorithms require the creation of a key and an initialization vector (IV), while asymmetric…
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We are writing C++ tests with the help of Microsoft Unit Testing Framework (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/test/how-to-use-microsoft-test-framework-for-cpp?view=vs-2022#run-the-tests) Tests are running fine, it works within Visual…
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Details Error LNK1181 cannot open input file 'C:\6money\libs.obj' Dll1 C:\6money\Money\Dll1\LINK 1 Hello, I'm currently facing an issue when trying to link the lua54.lib library in my…
Visual Studio Enterprise's Analyze Code Coverage function supports Changeset Report. I want to be able to get a code coverage changeset report i.e. report for only the changes files in my current branch from the command line by using VSTest.Console.exe.…
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When creating a test suite you specify an area path and select functional requirements. When you open the created suite the area path is not the same as you specified before creating the suite, Why? There is no information in the suite from which…
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