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Just creating an empty XUnit C# Unit test project fails miserably when trying to run or discover the tests with this error:
Microsoft.TestPlatform.VsTestConsole.TranslationLayer.TransationLayerException: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\Common7\ServiceHub\Hosts\ServiceHub.Host.AnyCPU\ServiceHub.TestWindowStoreHost.exe process failed to connect to vstest.console process after 90 seconds. This may occur due to machine slowness, please set environment variable VSTEST_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT to increase timeout.
at Microsoft.TestPlatform.VsTestConsole.TranslationLayer.VsTestConsoleWrapper.WaitForConnection()
at Microsoft.TestPlatform.VsTestConsole.TranslationLayer.VsTestConsoleWrapper.EnsureInitialized()
at Microsoft.TestPlatform.VsTestConsole.TranslationLayer.VsTestConsoleWrapper.DiscoverTests(IEnumerable1 sources, String discoverySettings, TestPlatformOptions options, ITestDiscoveryEventsHandler2 discoveryEventsHandler) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestWindow.Messaging.RemoteAgent.BaseTestAgentBridge.DiscoverTestsAsync(IEnumerable1 sources, String discoverySettings, RemoteTestPlatformOptions options)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestWindow.Host.TestPlatformProvider.<DiscoverTestsAsync>d__18.MoveNext()
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Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum. Looks like it’s a timeout issue. Are you using the latest version of VS 2022 Enterprise? Try to update it to the latest version if you are using previous version of VS 2022. Besides, if you reboot your machine or restart VS, will this issue disappear?
I tried all of that unsuccessfully, yes. And I'm on the latest version 17.3.6. The only way I can run some tests is from command line with dotnet test and only .NET Core tests. .Net framework tests all fail with same timeout error.
Dotnet command is for .NET Core or .NET, but not for .NET Framework. The default XUnit C# test project template is for .NET, but based on my test, simply running an empty XUnit C# test project should pass successfully.
Is there anything changed that you notice? Like VPN changed, firewall set, permission set, directories changed or some other things changed?
As I mentioned in the initial question, that's what happens: an empty xUnit C# project based on .NET 6.0, it does NOT run any test. This is a new laptop provided by my company and I have no control on VPN settings, firewall rules, permissions, etc. On another side we usually run .NET framework tests from command line with dotnet vstest on ADO pipelines.
I'm the only one having this issue as any other laptops from other people it works.
Does repairing Visual Studio work? And would you mind reinstalling Visual Studio 2022, if repairing VS still doesn’t work?
It did not. I tried a couple of times. I'll try uninstall VS2022 and then install again with extra reboots in between.
Sadly, it did not help at all.
Any more ideas @Tianyu Sun-MSFT ? Is there any diagnostics log I can send you to help pinpoint the issue?
What I can see is that no vstest.console.exe is launched whatsoever so no wonder why TestWindowStoreHost.exe times out!
Also if I launch from command line vstest.console it doesn't work either. So that could be the issue.
If I write from developer prompt I get same problem but call stack is different:
255089-vstestconsoleexception.txt
Could you help to confirm that the vstest.console.exe exists in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\Extensions\TestPlatform directory? And if you specify the path in the command line to run C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\Extensions\TestPlatform\vstest.console xUnitTestProject1.dll, will vstest.console.exe launch?
Of course, it exists.
If I specify that patch unquoted it errors with:
'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
But if I quote it, I get same result as if I hadn't specified the path, because the developer prompt searches in that path.
I’d like to know if vstest.console.exe can be normally called from Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022 Enterprise. Could you try to input and run this command: vstest.console.exe -? and let me know if usage message displays? Besides, if you run above command prompt as administrator and run the vstest.console.exe xUnitTestProject1.dll command, will different error prompt?
Regards,
Tianyu
I tried all of that already and:
A) Being admin makes no difference.
B) Help displays as expected
If you see the previous call stack I sent in a text file. You can see that JsonReader from NewtonsSoft.Json is getting an invalid value for the DateParseHandling property.
If you put the empty XUnit project in another directory for example C:\Test, will it work? If this still doesn’t work, I would suggest you raise a ticket on our Developer Community for further investigate, in case it’s a potential issue.
No difference. Same result. I'll raise a ticket there.