VS 2019 support

Hello,

I know the preview of vs 2019, just started but do you have any ETA on Ncrunch version for it?

Thanks

To avoid drowning in VS releases, our general policy is to try to add support in the late RC stages.

It's a month out from release, we're starting to evaluate the upgrade for usage and I feel blind without ncrunch, do you have an expected release date for support now?

We're aiming to push an experimental build at the end of this week.

VS2019 support in NCrunch is now available.

Thanks. Loaded it up this morning and it popped up a license dialog even though my license is good through july. Is that intentional because it is an experimental version? I'm using the 30-day trial license for now, but wanted to mention it.

smitchamb wrote:Thanks. Loaded it up this morning and it popped up a license dialog even though my license is good through july. Is that intentional because it is an experimental version? I'm using the 30-day trial license for now, but wanted to mention it.

We haven't made any changes to the licensing system in this version, though it's possible that the license details are being stored separately because it's a new VS instance. If your license is still current, it should work just fine.

Thanks for the info. If I have an issue, I'll try putting in my license information.

Hi All,

There's a new version out!

NCrunch_VS2019_3.25.0.1.msi
NCrunch_VS2019_3.25.0.1.msi.7z
NCrunch_VS2019_3.25.0.1.zip

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Release notes for 3.25.0.1 since version v3.24.0.5
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Added support for the new Visual Studio 2019 Blue theme

Fixed a problem with building projects under Visual Studio 2019 when the build task referenced certain assemblies

I recently installed 3.25.0.1 to VS 2019 RC2.

All menu entries are disabled.
When I click on "Configuration..." a NullReferenceException occurs.
Only the "About" entry is working.

[img=https://imgur.com/6Co75vT]NCrunch menu[/img]

Hi Twenzel,

Thanks for taking the time to post this. I tried reproducing what you did. I haven't succeeded. I see that you have a solution open and that VS is complaining about us taking to long to start up... Could it be that you've caught it mid start up?

If you restart VS by opening a solution directly does this still happen? If it doesn't could you enable logging in the configuration? Could you post or sent that? (michael at ncrunch dot net)

Do you have the tests window open? If not could you try that?

It seems that you've found a hole in all of the new startup options VS 2019 has created for us.

After restarting VS and open the solution, it's working.
I also have the "NCrunch Tests" window open. Everything seems to work.

Ok,

installed 3.24.0.5 on my Grid Node and VS 2019 local.

After not getting the test to work, and some build failures on the node. i decided to give 3.25.01 a spin.

installed 3.25.01 on my VS2019 (RC.2) machine, it shows up. but the same problem on the grid node appeared. builds and run test finde locally. so i
hacked the GridNode Server Download Uri for 3.25.01 and updated it. But VS2019 did not connected (or even tried to connect) to the grid node.
Also the Test ToolWindow of NCrunch had no tool Window.

So, I uninstalled 3.25.0.1

But after restart of VS2019 NCrunch 3.25.0.1 was still present in the Extensions Menu (even the About NCrunch showed 3.25.0.1).

I tried to uninstall again, but NCrunch 3.25.0.1 only allowed me to install.

So i gave the 3.24.0.5 installer a change, and i gave me the remove option instead of installing. so i removed it, and then NCrunch was gone.

I installed 3.25.0.1 again.

Now it seems to work. Building an Running on 3.25.0.1 in VS2019 and on the Grid Node.

But you should look at the installer issue.

The biggest problem with VS2019 is that it now forces extensions to integrate their bootstrap sequence asynchronously.

This creates a wide scope for inconsistencies when dealing with tool windows.

It will be difficult for us to troubleshoot these sorts of problems as they are likely to be very situational and probably only occur intermittently. If you encounter a bootstrapping or tool window related problem, please submit a bug report through NCrunch as soon as you can. We'll look into these issues as much as possible.

The installer for v3.25.0.1 and v3.24.0.5 is identical - we didn't touch it between versions. So probably what we're seeing here is VS neglecting to reset its extension cache on an intermittent basis. If you see this happen, try running "devenv.exe /setup" as an administrator to see if this resolves the problem (and please let me know if it does).

Remco wrote:The installer for v3.25.0.1 and v3.24.0.5 is identical - we didn't touch it between versions. So probably what we're seeing here is VS neglecting to reset its extension cache on an intermittent basis. If you see this happen, try running "devenv.exe /setup" as an administrator to see if this resolves the problem (and please let me know if it does).

From my understanding even if VS2019 has problems with the Cache, then the Installer of 3.25 should have overriden any traces of 3.24 und 3.24 should have prompted me to install after uninstalling 3.25, not give me the option to repair or uninstall itself.

Remco wrote: try running "devenv.exe /setup" as an administrator to see if this resolves the problem (and please let me know if it does).

After uninstalling 3.24 and 3.25 the extension was gone, i have the theory that the extension was installed twice (maybe because of different application identifiers for the Installer).

Also after the first install of 3.25 (over 3.24) Visual Studio for the first time ever nagged me about the long startup Time from NCrunch (was even longer than ReSharper).

Maybe i find time to check that (but currently i'm happy that the system in running).

Der-Albert.com wrote:Ok,
But you should look at the installer issue.

Hi Albert,

Thanks for testing and the detailed report. I was able to reproduce the installer issue and fix it. I missed one upgrade guid.

I'm going to look into the grid issues and some other issues too, then a new release will be pushed.

Michael

It is now working with the Grid and locally. Both are on 3.25

Hi,

I've created a new release.

This fixes the installer issue. This release requires you to uninstall NCrunch for VS2019 and reinstall with the current installer.

NCrunch_VS2019_3.25.0.2.msi
NCrunch_VS2019_3.25.0.2.msi.7z
NCrunch_VS2019_3.25.0.2.zip

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Release notes for 3.25.0.2 since version v3.24.0.5
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Improved how NCrunch is loaded under Visual Studio 2019

Fixed an issue with upgrading the extension for Visual Studio 2019. Please uninstall the previous version of NCrunch for Visual Studio 2019 first, there might be more than one.

Added support for the new Visual Studio 2019 Blue theme

Fixed a problem with building projects under Visual Studio 2019 when the build task referenced certain assemblies