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McKay
McKay

Reputation: 12624

How do I clear the [Ignore] cache for test methods? (without restarting Visual Studio)

I have some tests that were marked as [Ignore], but now, I want to run them again, so I remove the [Ignore] attribute, but Visual Studio still treats them as ignored.

What can I do to clear the cache to not ignore the tests anymore?

Update:

It looks like this data is stored in the vsmdi file:

<TestLink ... name="MethodName" ... enabled="false" />

So deleting the vsdmi file, or otherwise causing it to be regenerated is necessary.

But, visual studio caches it, so restarting visual studio seems to fix the problem (sometimes at least).

Upvotes: 5

Views: 7046

Answers (4)

jsturtevant
jsturtevant

Reputation: 2610

I was using Visual Studio 2012 and did not have a .vsdmi file but ran into the issue. I was able to solve this by deleting the .suo (hidden file next the .sln file) file and restarting the Visual Studio. I know it says without restarting but the provided solution didn't work for me so I am providing an alternative in case someone else runs into the same error.

Upvotes: 0

Jim Wijnker
Jim Wijnker

Reputation: 11

Even while this topic is quite old, I'd like to add my solution to this problem, for anyone who's having the same problem...

I recenlty had this problem also, and found the solution in the .vsmdi file. Under 'Test Settings', 'Unit Test' a had a folder referred in 'Root folder for the assemblies to be loaded:' and the checkbox 'Use the Load Context for assemblies in the test directory' was checked.

I unchecked the checkbox, and after that, my tests did run succesfully! (I knew the files referred in 'Root folder....' where old assemblies. You can also remove the files from folder in 'Root folder...' to make sure your old assemblies are removed.

Upvotes: 1

RobIII
RobIII

Reputation: 8831

Have you tried Clean Solution (in the build menu)? Also I would try deleting the bin/obj folders from the test-project. If that doesn't work I'd look for other (binary) files that might be a cache of some sort or related to test-projects and just delete them. I can't imagine it to be hard to locate such files and just delete them (make sure you have a backup, just in case).

EDIT Apparently it's the .vsmdi file.
EDIT2 Apparently not :P

If I would've encountered such a problem I might even have done a filesearch looking for specific method-names that have been [ignored]. Make sure you use a tool that looks "inside" every file, windows file-search ignores a crapton of files.

Upvotes: 3

Scen
Scen

Reputation: 1720

We have this issue where I work as well.

You can manually change the .vsmdi file or delete it. If you open the test view again (after deleting it) it will generate a new file.

Also, the same kind of issue can occured with which test settings you have selected. It will 'cache' that as well.

Upvotes: 2

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