Binding fails with "SonarQube request failed: Failed to write credentials"

[duncanp-sonar]

Description

See the following two community forum threads: here and here.

Expected behavior

Credentials should be saved successfully and the binding process completed.

Actual behavior

The binding process failed.

Known workarounds

None

Related information

• SonarLint for VS Version: 4.6.
• Visual Studio Version: ?
• Languages in your solution; C#

Notes

We've been unable to repro the issue locally.

The Failed to write credentials error message is thrown by the Microsoft.Alm.Authentication component as the result of a failed Win32 API call. The API is throwing Win32Exception which should have the HRESULT error code. Unfortunately, we aren't logging that part so we're losing the Windows error code.

In the absence of a repro, we could amend the logging to capture the Windows error code to give us a better idea of what the underlying issue might be.

[RogerW-VZC]

Same error, VS2019 16.4.6. Pro

I get one additional line before the "Failed to write credentials" error.
"Ruleset binding: all projects need to be updated reference the generated ruleset."

Every time the binding tries to run, an additional ruleset file is added to every project.

I have just deleted the .sonarlint and .sonarqube folders, etc as recommended https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sonarlint/_hgsvV6WHEU because I needed to switch from a localhost sonarqube to our corporate one.

SonarLint 4.19.0.15817
Windows 10 Pro.
SonarQube Enterprise EditionVersion 7.9.1 (build 27448)

Saving everything. Closing VS, and reopening appears to have corrected it.
I got a message that the profile was "out of date", and after clicking "Update" I seem to be connected.