Tuesday, April 10, 2012

NuGet not installing NUnit 2.6x tools in Visual Studio .net 2010

I've been working on learning ASP .NET MVC 3 and started a video tutorial from PluralSight - very informative and goes step-by-step to build on learning.

I issue I came across was using the the NuGet utility to add the NUnit package and references to do unit testing. The current version is 2.6x, and the instruction from PluralSight was provided with 2.5x; I found the current version a bit harder to set up than the demo showed. When I used NuGet to get the needed packages for the test project, although it added the needed references, it didn't install the nunit-console (at least I couldn't find it) in the solution directory [$(SolutionDir)\packages\NUnit.2.6.0.12054\tools\nunit-console].

The following has seemed to remedy the issue:
  • Go to the NUnit site and downloaded the .msi.
  • Once installed (by double-clicking the downloaded msi), copy needed files in the install directory [C:\Program Files (x86)\NUnit 2.6\bin]
  • Paste in [$(SolutionDir)\packages\NUnit.2.6.0.12054\tools\]
That did it - the post-build event command line code of the test class library executed without issue. For reference, here is the command line:
$(SolutionDir)\packages\NUnit.2.6.0.12054\tools\nunit-console $(TargetPath)


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7 comments:

  1. LskiApril 27, 2012 at 9:59 AM

    Looking at it, they appear to have moved out the console into a new package called NUnit.Runners, which contains the necessary files including the console.

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  2. Mrudang VoraJuly 25, 2012 at 3:24 AM

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  3. Mrudang VoraJuly 25, 2012 at 3:29 AM

    Faced the same issue while implementing the stuff mentioned in PluralSight MVC3 video practically with NUnit-2.6. Your post helped me. Thanks.

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  4. mikeydunn69August 7, 2012 at 10:18 AM

    Fortunately I had an old version of NUnit in one of my other projects but this is really helpful, thank you! I have been watching exactly the same Pluralsight video myself and you are right, they are fantastic videos, especially this one on MVC3. I only hope that replying to this will give your post a higher chance of being viewed by other people having the same issues.

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  5. UnknownMay 26, 2014 at 7:19 PM

    Same thing - PluralSight video mvc3 - This post helped me get the GUI
    Thx

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  6. jerryoAugust 24, 2016 at 10:40 AM

    Can I add to the list of folks your post has helped? Thanks. Same issue, now with NUnit.3.4.1

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