Hi,

We have a large solution where we put our global usings in 2 seperate files:

- GlobalUsings.Solution.cs
- GlobalUsings.Tests.cs

We attach these two global usings files using a Directory.Build.props file:

(part of the Directory.Build.props file)

<ItemGroup>
<Compile Include="$(SolutionDir)\GlobalUsings.Solution.cs" Link="GlobalUsings.Solution.cs" />
</ItemGroup>

<ItemGroup Condition="$(AssemblyName.Contains('UnitTest'))
OR $(AssemblyName.Contains('Specifications'))
">
<Compile Include="$(SolutionDir)\GlobalUsings.Tests.cs" Link="GlobalUsings.Tests.cs" />
</ItemGroup>

When enabling NCrunch, we encounter a load failing project having this exception:


System.Exception: An exception was thrown in the remote environment: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. --> System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero.
Parameter: lenght
at System.String.Substring(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length)
at nCrunch.Compiler.BuildXml.AddTargetScript(String targetName, String dependsOnTargerts, String targetScript)


Notice that I have enabled LongPathEnabled in the registry, and I also re-allocated the workspace dir to :
c:\dev\NCrunch

Wooww... that was the issue, thanks!

Our failing project had this:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk"/>

It now loads correctly with this content:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
</Project>


Question: Why did my inital .csproj content not work ? (without the closing tag)

Second question/request: I didn't manage to copy the whole exception stacktrace content from the Trace Output window (I typed the exception stacktrace in first post word for word...), can this be fixed ? I could select all content, but CTRL+C or a copy context menu was not possible...

-> we can manage this issue by using a closing tag, so not a big deal at the moment

-> you might reproduce this copy/paste issue by creaing a small project in .net7 having no closing tag ;-)