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How do you run unit tests for a specific target framework in Visual Studio 2017/2019?

December 17, 2023 by Tarik

I know that the question is about VS, but I find useful that when targeting multiple frameworks dotnet tests command will run tests for all frameworks in <TargetFrameworks> node: > dotnet test … Test run for [projectPath]\bin\Debug\netcoreapp1.1\XUnitTestProject.dll(.NETCoreApp,Version=v1.1) … Test run for [projectPath]\bin\Debug\net461\XUnitTestProject.dll(.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1) … NCrunch can also recognize multiple targets and run tests for every target … Read more

How can I convert a .NET Core project to a .NET Framework project?

December 15, 2023 by Tarik

If you’re happy with it still using the new tooling, the easiest approach is probably just to edit the project file (csproj). Right-click on the project in Solution Explorer and you should have a context menu option of “Edit <yourproject>.csproj”. Click on that, and just change <TargetFramework>netcoreapp1.1</TargetFramework> to <TargetFramework>net46</TargetFramework> … and I suspect you’ll be … Read more

Unable to start program. [VALUE].dll is not a valid Win32 application error in Visual Studio 2017

December 14, 2023 by Tarik

The same error happens when Visual Studio solution has selected the wrong Startup Project. The bold project is the designated startup project. Go to the Solution Explorer > Right click on the correct project and select “Set as StartUp Project” in the context menu.

Visual studio 2017 Update 3 – The SDK ‘Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web’ specified could not be found

December 13, 2023 by Tarik

I stumbled upon this issue a number of times recently. Here’s a brief list of the workaround I found (one of them always worked until now): Install the right .NET Core SDK: Either the latest version or the version required by your project. Clean-up obsolete .NET Core versions: Go to Control Panel and uninstall previous … Read more

Visual Studio 2017 Cannot Move Shelveset to Another Branch

December 12, 2023 by Tarik

I absolutely agree this is a greatly missed feature in 2017 and up. After too many times of doing this manually, I decided to add it to my (free) Visual Studio Extension called ‘MultiMerge’. You can now right-click a shelveset and choose your target branch. There’s a VS2017 version and VS2019. Or you can simply … Read more

How to install Visual Studio 2017 64bit version explicitly?

December 12, 2023 by Tarik

Visual Studio 2017 is still a 32Bit application, Microsoft tried to defend their decision to not provide VS as 64bit in various blog posts. So by default 32Bit applications install to C:\Program Files (x86)\ and everything is ok what you see. // Update The next Visual Studio Version 2022, will be 64Bit to fix the … Read more

Visual Studio 2017 setup project missing

December 10, 2023 by Tarik

Full explained and working solution: 1) open vs2017 and select “Tools” -> “Extensions and Updates” 2) Under Extensions and Updates select “Online” on the left of the window and on the right type in search box “Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension” hit enter and it is the first download in result (attached image) select this … Read more

Console.WriteLine(“”); gets stuck

December 7, 2023 by Tarik

One thing that can cause this, is if you click on the console window in such a way that it starts to select text, in other words, the first step in copying text out of the console window. When this happens, a write to the console window will hang until you return to the console … Read more

Console App (.Net Standard) not listed

December 4, 2023 by Tarik

It doesn’t make sense to create a .NET Standard console app. You can think of .NET Standard like you would an interface in C#. .NET Standard is an interface, then there’s concrete implementations of it in .NET Framework, .NET Core and other platforms. .NET Standard makes sense for class libraries, but a console app needs … Read more

How to restart Visual Studio manually?

December 3, 2023 by Tarik

I don’t really like answering my own question but I found the RestartStudio extension for Visual Studio 2010 that adds the restart option to the File menu and seems to work well.