Re: can no longer run nunit-gui after VS2008 install

Bad news... I was going to change the shortcut as you suggested, but I tried 
it again before making any modifications... and it ran! I really do not have 
any idea what changed on my system to let it run now. 

Charlie Poole writes: 

> What I'm wondering is whether the .NET updates installed with
> VS2008 change how the COMPLUS_VERSION environment variable works.
> If you would like to experiment, take a look at how clr.bat 
> works. You can do the same thing from the command line. 
> 
> It would also be useful to verify that the shortcut works, if
> you modify it to run nunit.exe directly. 
> 
> Charlie 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
>> Of [email protected]
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 8:38 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Nunit-users] can no longer run nunit-gui after 
>> VS2008 install 
>> 
>> Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I am using the .NET 2.0 
>> download of NUnit 2.4.7.  
>> 
>> I was thinking of just uninstalling and reinstalling NUnit to 
>> see if that would fix the issue. But since it sounds like you 
>> would like to know the cause, I am happy to wait to see if 
>> other readers have some ideas which I could check while my 
>> system remains in its puzzled state.  
>> 
>> 
>> Charlie Poole writes:  
>> 
>> > This one is a bit of a mystery, which I hope someone will 
>> give me some 
>> > feedback on for a permanent fix. Since you only mention one 
>> shortcut, 
>> > I'm assuming you had the .NET 2.0 download of NUnit 2.4.7. In that 
>> > case, there is no difference between 'clr.bat 2.0 
>> nunit.exe' and just 
>> > plain 'nunit.exe'
>> > so you can simply change the properties of the shortcut to run 
>> > nunit.exe.
>> > 
>> > The problem is that this would not work for a situation 
>> where you have 
>> > the 1.1 download and want to run under .NET 2.0.
>> > 
>> > Do any readers have an idea as to what VS2008 may have changed?
>> > I'm in the dark, since I don't have a copy installed yet. 
>> > 
>> > Charlie
>> > 
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: [email protected]
>> >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
>> >> [email protected]
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 4:11 PM
>> >> To: [email protected]
>> >> Subject: [Nunit-users] can no longer run nunit-gui after
>> >> VS2008 install
>> >> 
>> >> On one machine I installed Visual Studio 2008, then 
>> installed NUnit 
>> >> 2.4.7, and was able to run the NUnit-Gui without a problem. On a 
>> >> second machine I first installed NUnit 2.4.7 without having Visual 
>> >> Studio installed, and NUnit-Gui ran without a problem. I just 
>> >> installed Visual Studio 2008 and now NUnit-Gui fails with 
>> this error:
>> >> "Windows cannot find 'nunit.exe'. Make sure you typed the name 
>> >> correctly, and then try again..."
>> >> The properties of the NUnit-Gui shortcut seem good to me: 
>> the command 
>> >> is
>> >>    "C:\Program Files\NUnit 2.4.7\bin\clr.bat" 2.0 start 
>> nunit.exe and 
>> >> the start directory is "C:\Program Files\NUnit 2.4.7\bin\".
>> >> If I go to the NUnit bin directory and double-click on 
>> >> NUnitTests.nunit it runs the GUI fine and all tests pass.
>> >> 
>> >> What piece am I missing to launch the GUI by itself? 
>> >>  
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