NUnit isn't running Visual Studio 2010 code - visual-studio-2010

I'm trying to load a Visual Studio 2010 beta dll into the NUnit GUI. I get a popup error.
This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded. You may be attempting to load an assembly build with a later version of the CLR than the version under which NUnit is currently running.
How do I force an executable to run under .NET 4?

I've downloaded the NUnit 2.5 source and opened the VS2008 solution in the VS2010 beta. Once the conversion finished I opened all the projects and changed the target framework setting for all the projects to ".NET Framework 4.0". I then built the solution without any errors. I can now use the NUnit GUI app to run tests built for .NET 4.0. I've not done exhaustive testing of this build so there may be problems, but for my purposes it works fine.
Update: It is not necessary to rebuild NUnit. I discovered that if you add the following to the relevant NUnit config file you can run a test dll built for .NET 4.0.
Under <configuration> add:
<startup>
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0.30319" />
</startup>
and under <runtime> add:
<loadFromRemoteSources enabled="true" />

With .NET 4 being released, I used
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0.30319" />
in the NUnit 2.5.4 exe.config instead of requiredRuntime, and the loadFromRemoteResources tag as shown above and all worked well. Thanks!

You don't have to modify any file
just open this file and everything will work just fine
C:\Program Files (x86)\NUnit 2.5.10\bin\net-2.0\nunit-x86.exe

In NUnit 2.5.5 you can specify in the command line the option /framework=net-4.0 and it is compatible with the new assemblies generated with the release of the latest VS2010.

The proposed solution worked great for getting NUnit to run. Unfortunately, when I then got to my code coverage step, NCover started giving me:
Profiled process terminated. Profiler
connection not established.
The best solution I found to this was to just use the "-x86" version of NUnit with NCover:
NCover.Console.exe
nunit-console-x86.exe --additional params--
Works now.

To find your .net 4 version from the Visual [C# 2010 Express, or which ever] go to the Visual application's "About" under the menu's Help item. It should show up as the version under the Microsoft .NET Framework line on the top right hand side of the window.

I ran into the very same error message while running NUnit 2.4.8. As I had not upgraded in some time I installed the current NUnit (v2.5.9) and found that it now supports VS2010 assemblies. So if you have newly encountered this error check your NUnit version: as of December 2010 (or so) the only thing you need to do is upgrade NUnit.

As of NUnit 2.5.10 you can enable visual studio support in the GUI runner:
Tools-> Settings-> IDE Support
After that I was able to successfully attach to the nunit-agent.exe process which runs your assembly in a .NET 4.0 app domain

If you experience this issue after upgrading to nunit 2.5.5 then you will need to upgrade nant to the latest version for me it was .91 alpha.

I found usefull to start from NUnit Application Template. It support VS C# Express, allows debugging tests and contains precompiled NUnit for .NET 4.0. Thank to author new test project gets ready with one click.

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XUnit Tests No Longer Working After Upgrade From .NET 5 To .NET 6 (Q & A)

I have an xUnit unit testing project. All was working fine in .NET 5.
In Visual Studio 2022, I changed the .NET Version in the csproj to .NET 6 as shown below.
Following this, the tests build but no longer run.
There is no info in the output window. The Test Explorer just says it wont run the tests, with 'unexpected error detected'.
What should I do to fix this?
I created a new project and compared the csproj file with my old project. There were a couple of differences
First, I needed to add the nuget package for Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk (in my case, version 16.11.0). This seemed to fix it.
I also noticed a couple of properties in the first PropertyGroup that I was missing. I added those too. However, just adding Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk fixed it for me.
In my case I was changing from NUnit to XUnit and also needed to add the xunit.runner.visualstudio nuget package

Visual Studio FsUnit test setup - Exception NUnit.Engine.NUnitEngineException

I am using Visual Studio 2013, installed FsUnit 2.2.0, which requires NUnit 3.2.1 and FSharpCore 3.1. I created a separate test project and put a testfixture and test in there. My platform is x64 Win 10. The config is for 'AnyCPU' and 'Debug'. I've tried test settings for x86 and x64. When trying to build and create tests, I get:
------ Discover test started ------
NUnit Adapter 3.2.0.0: Test discovery starting
Exception NUnit.Engine.NUnitEngineException, Exception thrown discovering tests in C:\Users\Dad\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\...
Cannot run tests in process - a 32 bit process is required.
Exception NUnit.Engine.NUnitEngineException, Exception thrown discovering tests in C:\Users\Dad\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\...
Cannot run tests in process - a 32 bit process is required.
NUnit Adapter 3.2.0.0: Test discovery complete
========== Discover test finished: 0 found (0:00:00.1230077) ==========
If I change the config for both the test and target projects to 'x86' (instead of AnyCPU) then the error for the base project goes away, but the same thing happens for the test project.
No tests are ever discovered, help please ... and many thanks!
You will need to remove nunit from your solution and install it again with "NUnit3TestAdapter", version 3.0.10 works.
Uninstall any NUnit software in add/remove program and in your solutions. Now using Nuget package manager (tools > NuGet Package Manager > Manage NuGet Packages for solution...) remove any NUnit you have in a solution and install older version (e.g. 3.0.1). Find "NUnit3TestAdapter" and install in version 3.0.10.
I had the same problem with my .NET Core 2.0 project with NUnit 3.9 in Visual Studio 2017 and tests were not showing up in TestExplorer. Was stuck with this for quite some time. None of the solutions suggested in other related questions worked.
Then I figured out from this link that a class library with target .NET Standard does not work. The test project has to target .NET Core. Also, Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk NuGet is required.
So, the steps are
Make sure that the test project targets .NET Core
Install latest NUnit NuGet (I used 3.9)
Install corresponding NUnitAdapter NuGet (I used NUnit3Adapter)
Install Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk NuGet
Re-build and your tests will appear in Test Explorer in Visual Studio.
Note: Already added this answer to another .NET Core specific question. Adding here too, as the solution might be helpful in this scenario as well.
There is an error in NUnit 3.2.1 whereby the TestEngine assumes that it can't run a test requiring 32-bit execution in process. The assumption is always valid for NUnit's own runners, but not necessarily when the process is started by some other program. There's an issue filed about this.

Can't debug NUnit tests with Visual Studio

Trying to debug an NUnit test in VS2010 and is not stopping on the breakpoint. It was working the last time I tried need to debug the test (maybe 1 yr ago) but now it doesn't work.
I've tried the following:
How to debug with vs.net 2008 and nunit?
http://erraticdev.blogspot.com/2012/01/running-or-debugging-nunit-tests-from.html
I've tried attaching, rechecking my installation, updated the config file so it's using the 4.0 runtime, still doesn't hit the breakpoint.
What am I missing?
You can debug nunit tests in VS studio community version only. For this you need to install Nunit3testAdpter. You can add this in Tools -> Extension and updates. or from Nuget packages.
This is a long overdue question but I haven't seen the solution to debug NUnit tests directly within Visual Studio. This is quite easily possible and without any third party tools. All you have to do is configure your test project (which is just a plain old Class library project) so it will start NUnit test runner whenever you hit F5 or Ctrl-F5 (just run, no debugging).
Particularly you will have to configure your project properties to start an external program:
Step by step configuration is very well described in this blog post. It advises you to use NuGet to obtain NUnit test runner and configure project to execute the runner when you try running your library project. As simple as that. Using no specific tools which are usually not free.
There are multiple reasons why this may happen. If your application's target framework is different from NUnit's, then you won't be able to debug, because the tests are actually being run by nunit-agent.exe.
For me, my application was using 4.5, but NUnit's was using 3.5. (You can find this from one of the NUnit GUI applications -> Help -> About)
To fix this, change the nunit.exe.config file to include the following, inside the configuration section:
<startup>
<requiredRuntime version="4.0.30319" />
</startup>
This can also happen when your PDB generation is set to embedded. Switching it to full will allow the nunit test adapter to start with the debugger attached. At that point it can be switched back to embedded and it will debug again.
The setting is on the project properties pages, in the Build tab, then click the Advanced button. I always choose "All Configurations" at the top, so I make sure I'm emitting a useful PDB (or embedding the info) when building Release configuration assemblies too.
The other day I failed to hit a breakpoint in my NUnit debugging. It took me a while to realize that someone had copy/pasted the test into a different file and I was running a different test than the one that the breakpoint was in.
I recently had a similar problem. Changing the project's platform to AnyCPU solved it for me. Also worth checking:
1) Check NUnit's latest version (I was using 2.5.7, updated to 2.6.2)
2) The Target Framework for your test project. I was using .NET 4.0 (you can find it under Properties -> Application, on VS2010)
At least up to vs2010 the debugger can only debug 32 bit apps but not 64 bit apps.
With vs2010 I am using a 32bit nunit.exe version and use "attach to debugger". This workes well for me.
Please upgrade NUnit Test Extension and close the Visual studio so Visx (probably spell) will run and update NUnit tool.
After this you can open your project and run NUnit test project.
It will run.
I tested accurately.
Try changing the test to x64. From the menu do
Test -> Test Settings -> Default Processor Architecture -> x64.
i think u cant debug with Visual studio. better u install TestDriven.NET.
then
Put the BreakPoint on the test method
Right click on the test
method.
select TestWith->Debugger

Logging VS2010 unit test results in TFS 2008 not working

The tests appear to run fine after compliation, but the results don't go anywhere. A .trx file is written and indicates all tests passing. Team Build thinks no tests have been executed and gives the dreaded "Partial Success" result. I suspect that TFS cannot publish the trx to the database for some reason...possibly because the VS2010 version of the test results is not backwards compatible with TFS 2008...?
I'm running the build with MSBUILD 4.0 and using version 10 of MSTEST.
I've read that using the previous version of MSTEST (version 9 with VS 2008) could help. I tried this...MSTEST rightly complained that the test assembly was built against a more recent version of the .NET framework.
Anyone else had success with this? What should I try next?
Turns out I didn't have the right Microsoft.TeamSystem assemblies in the GAC. The version 9 assemblies were there but not version 10. This likely is due to VS2010 being uninstalled / reinstalled out of order w/ VS2008 (or something, who knows). A "Repair Installation" setup step solved the problem.
So, it looks like MSTEST 10 can indeed post results to a TFS 2008 datastore. Wee!

What is the impact of upgrading MSBuild to VS2010 for projects targeting .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.5?

I’m working on the build process for a VS 2010 solution and some projects within it target the .NET framework 4.0. As far as I know, to have this type of solution built by TFS 2008 we will have to change the version of the MSBuild.exe file used by the build agent – modifying the TFSBuildService.exe.config file, pointing MSBuildPath entry accordingly.
Do you know if this will have any impact to existing project builds that target the 2.0 and 3.5 framework? Are you aware of any known issues with this type of set up?
We made such upgrade from VS2008 to VS2010 without the TFS migration (so it's still in 2008 version). Only problem we had was with build machine (cause we have only one) so we had to configure SideBySide builds. We had projects in VS2008 solution with MSBUILD scripts, some of them were migrated to VS2010.
Here's the solution http://www.codeproject.com/KB/architecture/SideBySideTfsBuild.aspx
After changing we didn't experience any problems, yet:)

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