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Run old-style .NET Framework NUnit projects with NuGet restore plus dotnet vstest
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| name | legacy-nunit-vstest-runner |
| description | Run old-style .NET Framework NUnit projects with NuGet restore plus dotnet vstest |
| domain | testing |
| confidence | high |
| source | earned |
Use this when a non-SDK .NET Framework test project already references nunit.framework, but dotnet test only reports a successful build and never executes the fixtures.
nuget restore so packages.config dependencies land in src\before\packages.NUnit3TestAdapter as a development dependency to the unit-test project's packages.config.dotnet msbuild ... /t:Build /p:Configuration=Debug.dotnet vstest and an explicit --TestAdapterPath that prefers src\before\packages\NUnit3TestAdapter.<version>\build\net462 and falls back to %USERPROFILE%\.nuget\packages\....scripts\Invoke-LegacyNUnit.ps1.github\workflows\legacy-nunit-tests.ymlsrc\before\Fabrikam.EnterprisePizza.Tests.Unit\packages.configdotnet test output alone on old-style NUnit projects.