Today I feel like the most retarded guy on planet earth. I have just wasted half a day trying to get R# to run my unit tests. The tests simply does not even start so they don’t fail either.
A check of the output window shows that there is a possible chance of a FileNotFoundException which I thought was bullshit. I had a look at the settings for R# Unit Test and no there was nothing that I could do to make it work. Since I AM a smart guy usually (I am just feeling a bit stupid today) I decided to make all exceptions throw so that I could at least find some sort of trace or hint of where the problem actually occurs.
Ctrl+Alt+E takes you to the Visual Studio exceptions settings where I turn everything to throw and then I start debugging the unit tests. After a good few clicks some interesting exceptions shows up. It’s a FileNotFoundException and it looks like this:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException occurred
Message="Could not load file or assembly 'file:///D:\\Apps\\NUnit 2.5.2\\bin\\net-2.0\\lib\\nunit.core.dll' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified."
Source="mscorlib"
FileName="file:///D:\\Apps\\NUnit 2.5.2\\bin\\net-2.0\\lib\\nunit.core.dll"
FusionLog="=== Pre-bind state information ===
LOG: User = MOBILENORDIC\\mikael
LOG: Where-ref bind. Location = D:\\Apps\\NUnit 2.5.2\\bin\\net-2.0\\lib\\nunit.core.dll
LOG: Appbase = file:///D:/Projects/****.IntegrationTests/bin/Debug
LOG: Initial PrivatePath = NULL
Calling assembly : (Unknown).===
LOG: This bind starts in LoadFrom load context.
WRN: Native image will not be probed in LoadFrom context. Native image will only be probed in default load context, like with Assembly.Load().
LOG: Using application configuration file: D:/Projects/****.IntegrationTests\\bin\\Debug\\*.IntegrationTests.dll.config
LOG: Using machine configuration file from C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v2.0.50727\\config\\machine.config.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///D:/Apps/NUnit 2.5.2/bin/net-2.0/lib/nunit.core.dll."
StackTrace:
at System.Reflection.Assembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, Assembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, Assembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoadFrom(String assemblyFile, Evidence securityEvidence, Byte[] hashValue, AssemblyHashAlgorithm hashAlgorithm, Boolean forIntrospection, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom(String assemblyFile)
at JetBrains.ReSharper.UnitTestProvider.nUnit.NUnitTaskRunner.ExecuteRecursive(TaskExecutionNode node) in c:\Agent\work\cc29ccea5bf569df\src\UnitTestProvider.nUnit\src\NUnitTaskRunner.cs:line 103
InnerException:
Well interesting, it turned out that it was actually me being stupid. I was positive this had nothing to do with R# but the level of retardness does not stop here! I go back to the R# settings and look for somewhere to change the path to nunit but can’t find anything so I rename my d:\apps\nunit folder to match the one I couldn’t find and try again and now my unit tests run perfectly. I decided the bloody thing had messed with me for the last time! Going back to the settings for Unit Tests in R# I am faced with the following picture:

Now where the heck is that darn setting??? I open up the resharper.user file in notepad2 and search for nunit and at the bottom I found this:
<UnitTestRunnerNUnit>
<NUnitInstallDir>D:\Apps\NUnit 2.5.2\bin\net-2.0</NUnitInstallDir>
<UseAddins>Always</UseAddins>
<UseSpecifiedNUnit>True</UseSpecifiedNUnit>
</UnitTestRunnerNUnit>
Now I can change this to the folder where it is REALLY located and that is great when it hits me. I remember changing this in resharper for some stupid reason and I also remember that I did so within the Resharper Unit Test section of the options. While navigating back and clicking on nunit I am looking at the following picture:

Either I am mentally retarded or that part of the ReSharper options is so pick your choice.