Visual Studio 2012 and CodeLink plugin not working: Cannot start process because a file name has not been provided
My colleague and I have just tried to install and run the VS 2010 CodeLink plugin, mainly to be able to evaluate performance tweaks before migrating code through the environments. I have VS 2012 Premium and he has VS 2012 Ultimate (I read that Ultimate was necessary, so we both tried to install and run-- is this just for the load testing plugin?).
We are able to run the launcher and configuration via the TOOLS menu, but the launcher always comes back with the following error message:
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Could not launch application with dynaTrace support:
Cannot start process becausea file name has not been provided.
Application:
Arguments: /port:xxxx /nodirlist
/path:"my project file path" /vpath:"/"
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How do we get past this so we can run the server locally?
More info: running ASP.NET MVC 4 on .NET 4.5. The default page is just the url itself, e.g., http://localhost:xxxx/, where xxxx is the port number.
Thanks.
Is this a C# Project?
Thats what I thought - and thats also the reason why it doesnt work. The launcher feature only works on C# projects. It also says so on the download page of the plugin: Visual Studio 2010, 2012 and 2013 IDE Plugins. It says in the section "What the plugin provides". Probably not that easy to spot.
So - in your case you have to use the "manual" approach and not the launcher
That says the code-lookup only works in C#, not the launcher or the rest of the plugin.
You are correct. I will double check but I am pretty sure that the launcher only works with C#-based Web Projects. I was the original developer of this plugin and Visual Studio unfortunately has many limitations of non C#-based Projects when it comes to their internal interfaces.
It should work with other types of VB Projects such as standalone apps.
