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| 13 | <H1 class="subtitle"><SPAN class="first-line-indented">Microsoft Visual Studio |
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| 14 | .NET</SPAN> usage recommendations</H1> |
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| 16 | <LI><A href="#t1">Use custom build step to automatically start test program after compilation</A></LI> |
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| 17 | <LI><A href="#t2">If you got fatal exception somewhere within test case, make debugger |
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| 18 | break at the point the failure by adding extra command line argument</A></LI> |
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| 20 | <H5>Use custom build step to automatically start test program after compilation<A name="t1"></A></H5> |
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| 21 | <P class="first-line-indented">I found it most convenient to put test program |
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| 22 | execution as a post-build step in compilation. To do so use project property |
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| 23 | page:</P> |
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| 24 | <IMG src="imgs/post_build_event.jpg" alt="project property page" width="500" height="342"> |
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| 25 | <P class="first-line-indented">Full command you need in "Command Line" field |
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| 26 | is: </P> |
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| 27 | <P class="first-line-indented"><u>"$(TargetDir)\$(TargetName).exe" --result_code=no |
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| 28 | --report_level=no</u></P> |
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| 29 | <P class="first-line-indented">Note that both report level and result code |
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| 30 | are suppressed. This way the only output you may see from this command are |
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| 31 | possible runtime errors. But the best part is that you could jump through |
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| 32 | these errors using usual keyboard shortcuts/mouse clicks you use for compilation |
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| 33 | error annalists:</P> |
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| 35 | </P> |
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| 36 | <H5>If you got fatal exception somewhere within test case, make debugger |
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| 37 | break at the point the failure by adding extra command line argument<A name="t2"></A></H5> |
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| 38 | <P class="first-line-indented">If you got "memory access violation" message |
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| 39 | (or any other message indication fatal or system error) when you run |
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| 40 | you test, to get more information of error location add --catch_system_errors=no |
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| 41 | to the test run command line:</P> |
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| 42 | <P class="first-line-indented"><IMG src="imgs/run_args.jpg" width="500" height="342"></P> |
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| 43 | <P class="first-line-indented">Now run the test again under debugger and it will break at the point of failure. </P> |
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| 48 | Rozental</A> 2001-2005. <BR> |
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| 49 | Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. |
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| 50 | (See accompanying file <A href="../../../../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</A> or |
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| 51 | copy at <A href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</A>)</P> |
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| 52 | <P>Revised: |
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| 53 | <!-- #BeginDate format:Sw1 -->31 May, 2005<!-- #EndDate --> |
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