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Visual Studio 2012 vstest: run tests that do not belong to a category

Is it possible to run all tests that do not belong to a category from the command line? From the documentation, I know that I can run all tests that are a member of a category doing something like: vstest.console.exe myTestProject.dll…
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VS10 debugger error: Test host process exited unexpectedly

I have been having some problems with the test debugger in VS10. All tests are running without error, but when debugging it aborts when I try to read the object data. Afterwards, this error is displayed in the summary: Test host process exited…
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VSTestHost.exe has stopped working - can't run unit tests

The Microsoft unit testing framework has suddenly gone on strike. When I try to run tests in VS2008, I get a dialog with the message "VSTestHost.exe has stopped working". I have Visual Studio Team System 2008 (version 9.0.30729.1 SP) running on…
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Cannot run VSTest.Console.exe from a Windows or non interactive service for a Windows Phone Project

I installed the Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 and successfully run a set of Windows Phone tests from the command line I then tried to do this from Jenkins (using the VSTest Plug In) and received the following message which apparently has something to…
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Threading issue with running WatiN tests under VSTestHost

I've gotten a simple WatiN web test running on my dev environment and am trying to get it working on the TFS build server. WatiN is firing an exception: System.Threading.ThreadStateException: The CurrentThread needs to have it's ApartmentState…
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Why does VSTestHost.exe load assembly from c:\windows\assembly\temp directory?

I am developing an assembly which has to be installed in the GAC, and as part of a post-build step I ensure that the GAC gets updated after each build. If I create a (Visual Studio) unit test (in a seperate tests assembly) to call a new method on a…
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How do I debug a custom test adapter in Visual Studio

I am working on a custom test adapter for Visual Studio 2017. How can I configure Visual Studio to debug the test adapter without having to use a hack such as adding Debugger.Launch() in my adapter code?
Christopher Haws
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Simulate the UP arrow key press on a keyboard for a test executed by TestHost

I am trying to programmatically simulate the pressing of the UP arrow key on the keyboard for an end-to-end test. The test runs under TestHost in Visual Studio. My work is divided in 2 parts: 1- The function in the below code is inserted in the…
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testhost.exe crash with access violation exception

I have an unhandled exception in my code which: crashes my testhost.exe process and fails my azure pipeline build (exactly within the VSTest task). Exception: 0xC0000005: Access violation read location 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF After analyzing the dump…
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AutomationUI function test don't start by Azure Pipelines YAML

I have to run some AutomationUI functional tests from Azure DevOps Pipelines. The tests use a desktop application in WPF/Winforms. The problem is a process of application start but without UI. I run the test using YAML and tasks: VSTest@2 or…
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Problem loading C++ DLL from within visual studio test environment

So I've been trying set up tests on my solution using the visual studio test environment. The setup looks like this: Third party native library --> Managed C++ wrapper DLL --> C# project being tested ^ …
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VsPerfMon.exe and VsTestHost.exe Processes Hang when Run by MSTest from CruiseControl.NET

I'm using CruiseControl.NET with MSTest to build my vs2008 project and run my unit tests. If I run the tests from Visual Studio 2008, they work perfectly. However, when the tests are started by CruiseControl, the VsPerfMon.exe and VsTestHost.exe…
David Forson
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vsTestHost.exe uses only one processor

I have a simple load test that is using one TestMethod on a quad core 64 bit windows 2008 box. When i run the load test, i only see one processor being used to 100%, other processors are just idle, and i know that the server is not being hit to the…
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Run Visual Studio 2013 unit test without installing visual studio on server

I'm trying to run my unit test created via Visual Studio 2013 on my staging server. I don't want to install Visual Studio there, not the Test Agent so I found a way to run them by copying some of the DLLs and EXEs needed. Yes, I know it is a hack…
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