I am getting this message in the Diagnostic Tools window in Visual Studio 2015 when debugging a C# MVC web application.
I've checked solutions to a similar problem: Visual Studio 2015 diagnostics tool does not support current debugging configuration but using administrator mode and disabling "Use Managed Compatibility Mode" do not help. I've also tried disabling Options -> Debugging -> Just-In-Time -> Script, which still has no effect. It's the only reference I can find to 'Script' and I don't know how to change my debug engine.
I've also tried this solution from the web about setting the Visual Studio locale to the same as the OS, but they're both using US English. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2015/05/06/known-issue-for-diagnostics-tool-window-in-visual-studio-2015-rc-the-diagnostic-tools-failed-unexpectedly/
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
My error message is
The diagnostic tools failed unexpectedly. The Diagnostic Hub output in the Output window may contain additional information.
Try to modify the Environment Variable TEMP as following rules and reopen Visual Studio. That works for me, maybe it also works for you. My IDE is Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 Update 3.
It must only one path in TEMP. For example,
Fail:%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp;C:\OTHER_PATH
Fail: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\;C:\OTHER_PATH
Pass: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp
If you create a default MVC web app, and then debug your app, could you use the Diagnostics tool in your side? I test it in my side, it works well using the default settings, my OS and VS all are the English version. So you use the same language version, am I right?
If possible, you could check the following steps:
Reset your VS settings:
Open VS, TOOLS->Import and Export Settings Wizard->Reset all settings->select “No, just reset settings, overwriting my current settings”->Choose a Default Collection of settings(I often use the General or C#).
Please use the latest VS2015 with update 3.
Maybe you could download and install the match VS version as your windows directly, debug it again.
I am working on an SSIS package. The package has a script (C# language) task. I need to debug the script task. I set the break point. The script in script editor (Visual Studio) and the task in SSIS package editor, both, show break point in red color - means the break point is enabled. However, when I debug the package the break point does not hit.
The break point has no conditions on it, so I expect it to hit every time the package runs.
I am using Visual Studio 2008 on Windows 2003 R2 64-bit SP2.
After more research and trial-error, found that the SSIS package ignores the breakpoints in a Script Task when debugging on a 64-bit machine. To fix it -
Go to the Solution Explorer
Right click your SSIS project node > Properties
In Configuration Properties > Debugging > Debug Options > Set Run64BitRunTime to False.
After making this change, the breakpoints hit like magic.
I tried all the answers provided here with no success (using VS2015). After some more searching I found this question that is actually an answer which stated that newer C# features / syntax were causing the debugger to not fire correctly.
In their example (and also mine) using string interpolation was causing the breakpoints to not be hit.
Replacing
$"{someVariable} - {someOtherVariable}"
with
string.Format("{0} - {1}", someVariable, someOtherVariable);
did the trick for me.
EDIT
It appears this issue has now been fixed with SQL Server Integration Services Projects, but you need to be running VS2019 to download it.
Update: Guys, I againg lost any ability to set breakpoints (a request to MS)
My previous fixes are below.
Now I'm using logging and tracing instead of debugging.
C# new features (after C# 4.0) are blamed for killing debugging of the SSIS Script Task.
To return the breakpoint capability I do the following.
Remove C# new features
Run my Script Task once, successfully. I.e. without a crash.
Reopen the Vsta Project from my Script Task and put breakpoints there.
At the end, you have to see a red circle on your Script Task.
(Tested in VS 2017.)
Note. I have to mention that debugging works even if your use "Execute Task" only, not "Execute Package"!
Remove C# new features
To remove the C# new features, I can advise you two ways.
First, restrict Vsta Project properties to C# 4.0 (migrated packages may not support this).
Dobule click your "Script Task" to open "Script Task Editor".
Click "Edit Script..." button to open Visual Studio.
In "Solution Explorer" select the project and click the F4 key on your keyboard.
In opened "Properties" window in "C# Language Level" choise "C# 4.0"
Build your project and fix compilation errors.
Secondly, Vsta Projects in old/migrated packages may not show the above "C# Language Level" property.
So you can put your code in a fake project in Visual Studio 2010 and compile it there.
Run it once successfully
After you fix your C#, you have to run your Script Task once successfully.
You may want to put the return statement at the beginning of the Main() method to prevent any real execution.
Sorry, this doesn't always work and I don't realise why but you definitely need to fix your C# in the first place.
At least you will get a working Script Task and can debug it in an old fashioned way (logs by Dts.Events..., exceptions, etc.)
TL;DR
It looks like I even got severe cases when C# new features forced Script Tasks to fail silently with a success completion status.
As an example, add the following to your Script task.
string Bug { get; } // Only getter properties.
//...
var str = $"Now is {DateTime.Now}"; // String Interpolation in C#
//...
var dummy = val?.ToUpper(); // ?. and ?[] null-conditional Operators
And workarounds for this non-complete list:
string Bug { get; set; }
//...
var str = string.Format("Now is {0}", DateTime.Now);
// etc.
What I also do, I build my C# code in Visual Studio 2010. It simply doesn't compile the new .NET features and do not allows .NET Framework versions above 4.0. So far, so good.
Of course, other answers from this SO-question didn't help me.
In my case, none of these solutions worked. I finally got to know that the Resharper was culprit. After uninstalling it, it started working like charm.
In my case, I had to get rid of all features from C# 6: string interpolation, null conditional operators (?., ?(), ?[]) and expression-bodied members (=>) (there might be more in your case). You can check them all here. Of course, the same applies to C# 7 features.
The 32/64 bit changes from other answers didn't help, so I rolled back those and the debugging kept working just fine.
Use System.Diagnostics.Debugger class to add breakpoint programmatically:
System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch();
System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();
You can check if the debugger is attached or not:
if (System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached)
System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();
Follow these step:
Keep your project or solution opened.
Run your app to hit breakpoint.
Select your project in Just-In-Time Debugger.
I inherited an SSIS package where unfortunately the above answers didn't help.
In the end I found the script task's build properties for debug mode had had the optimize code ticked. Make sure this isn't ticked because for me visual studio would fire up for script debugging and close shortly after without breaking at all.
Pretty obscure but worth a mention.
We hit the same problem recently. For us the solution was to ensure that the script task project was marked to run as with the platform target set to x86.
Edit the script task
Click on the project and select properties
Select to set the platform target to x86
In addition to Jeff's suggestion, also change the Platform Target to "x86" (In the script's properties' Build tab. This FINALLY got me debugging again on a 64-bit system.
Microsoft released an update v3.2 of SQL Server Integration Services Projects where it resolves the issue with Roslyn and other C# language features introduced after .Net 4.5. C# features.
Bad news - this fix is for Visual Studio 2019 only, you have to upgrade your VS to use it.
I spent whole day on this and NONE of the solutions mentioned here worked for me.
In my case, the existing project was targeted to SQL Server 2016 which defaults ScriptLanguage Microsoft Visual c# 2015. This doesn't allow debugging in VS 2019. I have to target project to SQL Server 2019 to make debugging work. Of course, I am not going to checkin version change. It's only to debug script. Once script is working, I am going to revert target version to SQL server 2016.
Hope this saves time for someone.
I had the same problem as you #PAS. Using VS 2019 and Target server version 2016.
Just found out that if upgrading SSIS in Visual Studio (going into Extensions->Manage Extensions) to latest version (which now is 3.15) debugging is now working.
My breakpoints refused to hit no matter what I did. I ended up debugging and fixing the issues just using exception throws. Once I had fixed the issues I was having, the breakpoints started hitting!
So my breakpoints would only hit once the code did not experience any runtime issues... which is bizarre.
In my experience, it doesn't matter:
if Run64BitRuntime is true or false
if you build the 32 or 64 bits version of your package
But there is something very important, not mentioned in any other answer: you must run the whole package. If you run a Task or a Container the breakpoint will be ignored.
I'm using Visual Studio 2013, on a 64 bits machine.
I only had one Script component were no breakpoints were hit (I was doing some CRM stuff without needing source/target).
I trid to add a Source componenet with a simple fetchXML (even if I didn't needed it).
Then it worked! :-)
I found out that by copying a Script Component task, the VSTA project as a whole is copied as well. This is what you would expect, but what I did not expect is with that, the assembly name for example is also copied.
Running then Execute Task works fine, but running the whole package actually only runs the first script that was copied and resulted in exceptions being thrown before ever hitting the row processing function.
That was also the reason for me that breakpoints were not being hit.
I use IronPython for a lot of debugging, and I usually attach my Visual Studio debugger to ipy.exe, then import and use a .NET assembly to step through my code. However, I find that the IronPython Interactive extension for VS2010 is more fully-featured than the ipy.exe shell, and I would like to know whether it is possible to attach the debugger to the extension. Thank you!
Right click on the project file (not the solution) Proprieties/ Debug.
Then you should select "Standrad Python Louncher" for launch mode. It will use the ipy.exe, for interpeter, just you can debug easier.
You sould make visible the "Python Debug Interactiv" from Debug menu
Using visual studio 2008, I had a solution open and realized I need to install another program that the project I was working on used. I did this with visual studio open and attempted to debug the program, however the environment variables added by the program I installed were not visible. I could not get them to refresh until I exited VS and reloaded the solution. Is there a way to get visual studio to "refresh" its environment variable list without exiting and reloading the solution?
As an additional note, I did use process explorer to look at the environment variables for the application and could confirm that it was not aware of the environment variable I needed.
Nope. Environment variable changes on Windows only take effect for new processes. You'll have to exit Visual Studio and restart it.
I don't think there's any way round this. You have to restart the VS process so it can pick up the changes to the environment.
I'm cheap and don't want to pay for ReSharper or TestDriven.NET, is there a free visual Studio addin for NUnit?
You can create a blank project (Choose console application for example) and in the property of the project you can select DEBUG tag and select "Start External Program". Put the path of Nunit. Then, in the start option, the command line arguments select the DLL that contains all your tests (mine is always in the nunit\bin...). Then select "enable unmanaged code debugging" and you will be able to start the project inside VS and even use the debugger step-by-step.
This is a free solution.
Now you can use Gallio: it's open source. www.gallio.org
By the way TestDriven can be downloaded for free if it's for personal use or Open Source project.
I had to find a way to use .Net Reflector inside VS few days ago and when I downloaded TestDriven it cames with. Never got any popup asking me to paid.
NUnit actually ships with a basic integrated runner. It's not very good, and not very publicized, but unless Charlie has taken it out, it should be in the source.
I know this is an old question but another way to do this is to add an external tool from the tools menu to run nunit - set the arguments to be $(TargetName)$(TargetExt) and initial directory to $(ProjectDir)\bin\Debug
check out this link
This is an old question and things have changed since the answer was accepted.
You may try NCrunch to run tests automatically or manually.
If you're running Visual Studio 2012, there is a plugin written by Charlie Poole, one of the NUnit contributers, that makes use of the new Visual Studio Unit testing plugins.
Download VsTestAdapater - it's also in the extension manager.
Unfortunately it doesn't have much grouping options yet, either by run/not run - so you can't group by class, solution and so on. It also doesn't show you any stacktrace if a test fails, just a simple green tick or red box and a message.
I haven't used it, but NUnitit is a free Visual Studio Add-in for NUnit.
http://nunitit.codeplex.com
From my experience, the best add-in for visual studio is resharper. TestDriven.Net is also good for unit tests. Hope that helps
Also found this one : http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c8164c71-0836-4471-80ce-633383031099
It is able to launch your tests in debugger, however you need to recompile the code manually each time you change something - no auto run-build integration