C#•2y ago

Unresolved NuGet Dependency References

I have XUnit added as a dependency to my test project via NuGet. Despite this, my test project code seems to oscillate inexplicably between recognizing all of the dependency references and not. This doesn't really make any sense to me as I can successfully build and run the test project, but when I reload it all of the references become unrecognized. I have been using visual studio to set up projects/dependencies and working in VSCode, and even if I can build everything in VS just trying to scan for the test projects in VSC loses the dependency references.

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exokem•2y ago

these are all of the NuGet packages my project has installed

exokem•2y ago

it's just XUnit that isn't working all the time I have other projects in the solution that do not have the same issue

sibber•2y ago

you are importing the namespace right? just to make sure

exokem•2y ago

it doesn't even recognize the namespace literally every other build succeeds

sibber•2y ago

have you tried deleting the .vs folder and obj and whatever other stuff it generates then run dotnet restore then open vs

exokem•2y ago

should I run restore on the solution directory? I have multiple csproj projects in the solution

exokem•2y ago

this is the file structure with all of the csproj files

exokem•2y ago

the test project only includes Xylem/test the main project (Xylem) includes Xylem/data and Xylem/src

sibber•2y ago

sure

exokem•2y ago

I think Xylem and Xytest are using the same obj path for building so building one clears the dependency files for the other I probably need to separate the structure

sibber•2y ago

why do you even set the path

exokem•2y ago

what do you mean I haven't made any manual changes to anything in any case I have rearranged the projects so no two csproj share the same folder and everything seems fine

sibber•2y ago

oh they were sharing a folder

exokem•2y ago

yea

sibber•2y ago

yeah don't do that $structure

MODiX•2y ago

namespace Namespace;

[Attribute]
public class Class
{
  public string PublicField;
  private bool _privateField;
  protected double protectedField;    

  public int PublicProperty { get; set; }

  public Class() {} // Constructor

  public void Method(int parameter)
  {
    var localVariable = parameter; 
  } 
}

namespace Namespace;

[Attribute]
public class Class
{
  public string PublicField;
  private bool _privateField;
  protected double protectedField;    

  public int PublicProperty { get; set; }

  public Class() {} // Constructor

  public void Method(int parameter)
  {
    var localVariable = parameter; 
  } 
}

For C# versions older than 10, see $StructureOld

sibber•2y ago

oops not that one anyway generally i have a src folder for the actual app and a tests folder

exokem•2y ago

I had the main/test project separate so I wanted to move the tests into the main project without adding the XUnit dependency to the main project so my structure is like this now:

MainProject
  src
  test
    TestProject.csproj
  MainProject.csproj

MainProject
  src
  test
    TestProject.csproj
  MainProject.csproj

and the MainProject excludes the test directory

sibber•2y ago

thats worse imo and probably most peoples opinion just have the tests directory under the root, completely seperate from source

exokem•2y ago

I was thinking I needed the data directory which is at the same level as src but I don't actually so that does make sense

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