I'm using v1.37.0.46b in VS2010 - and I must say its not often I'm blown away by something, but NCrunch has certainly done just that over the last week or so.

However I got a problem which has occured a few times today where NCrunch has been using an older version of the source files to those in my solution, specifically a version which doesn't compile and therefore stops all tests from running.

The solution has the following projects:

• 2 x VB Windows App
  
• 1 x C# Web Application
  
• 2 x C# Class Library (one with classes (lets call it A), one with tests (B))
  
• 1 x C# Windows App

My tests are currently in one of the C# projects (B), and only reference the other C# class library project (A). The referenced project has <10 classes in it, and so far I've got 3 test classes in project B.

NCrunch appears to have been trying to use a previous (non-compiling) version of two of my class files (in project A), both of which had XmlElement attributes decorating the class (causing the compile error), which have since been changed to [XmlRoot]. I've checked the working folder, and the files are definitely the wrong ones.

Things I've tried which haven't helped (that I can see):

1. Set all projects, other than the two C# class library projects I care about, to "Ignore this component completely".
   
2. "Rebuild selected component" from context menu

I played around for a bit and found two solutions:

1. One involved cleaning the solution and individual projects (I'm not sure which worked), before then rebuilding the relevant projects and giving NCrunch a boot (resync / restart process).
   
2. The other was to simply update the files in question, which NCrunch then recognised and picked up the latest versions.

Interestingly, I've just switched back to VS2010 and I'm getting the same errors as previous, despite having fixed them earlier with the second solution above. I doubt the errors are relevant, but I've included them below just in case:

[20:23:40.6994-BuildTask-59] ERROR (Compilation): RAC.Integration.Shared: PDD\PaperlessDirectDebit.cs (9): Attribute 'XmlElement' is not valid on this declaration type. It is only valid on 'property, indexer, field, param, return' declarations.

[20:23:40.6994-BuildTask-59] ERROR (Compilation): RAC.Integration.Shared: PDD\PaperlessDirectDebitList.cs (9): Attribute 'XmlElement' is not valid on this declaration type. It is only valid on 'property, indexer, field, param, return' declarations.

One final thing... I just cleared out all previous versions from the working directory. NCrunch failed with multiple "Can't find file X" errors. I resync'd / restarted NCrunch from within visual studio, forced a rebuild of project A, and it failed again with the same errors as above!! Very odd... no idea where that code is, but its clearly cached somewhere.

If you need any more info - let me know!

Simon

Hi Remco,

Thanks for the quick response.

I think by "reset button" you mean the "Resychronise, rebuild and run all tests (reset)" button?

Unfortunately even that doesn't resolve the issue; and I've checked the workspace and it still has the old code in it.

Have just submitted the bug info from within VS - I'd be interested to hear how you get on.

Simon

Thanks - I'll take a look at the log file and will get back to you :)

Nope - all standard projects, no Pre/Post build steps etc.

One of the VB projects references an old COM component, but I've excluded that project already so wouldn't have thought it'd be that.

One thing I did just think of is that I installed VS11 / .NET 4.5 beta's on Friday evening. These projects are .NET 4.0, so the 4.5 upgrade may have had some impact on compilers... but the fact that that NCrunch workspace versions are out-of-sync would suggest the problem earlier in the process / pre-compile.

Simon