Can I debug standalone .Net Core tool with Visual Studio 2022?

[matteo-tosi]

Greetings,
I would like to contribute to this tool as we use it in its standalone .Net Core version.
I am using Visual Studio 2022 and I am able to compile successfully.
When I launch the solution with the SecurityCodeScan.Tool/.NET Core/security-scan project as starter and execution go to using (var workspace = MSBuildWorkspace.Create(properties)) I get this error:

I think it depends on the fact that I use Visual Studio 2022.
Ideas on how to fix it?

Thanks you,
Matteo

[JarLob]

I also use VS2022 and don't have this issue. Since you can reproduce I would appreciate if you found what is going on and fixed it. Maybe it is related to

security-code-scan/SecurityCodeScan.Tool/Program.cs

Lines 268 to 276 in 039e760

	// Attempt to set the version of MSBuild.
	var visualStudioInstances = MSBuildLocator.QueryVisualStudioInstances().ToArray();
	var instance = visualStudioInstances.OrderByDescending(x => x.Version).FirstOrDefault();
	if (instance != null)
	{
	if (parsedOptions.verbose)
	Console.WriteLine($"Using MSBuild at '{instance.MSBuildPath}' to load projects.");
	MSBuildLocator.RegisterInstance(instance);
	}

?

[JarLob]

Do you mean you choose which stand-alone exe to run from the output? I wonder how it works with the tool isntalled with dotnet tool install --global security-scan...

[JarLob]

I just pushed one thing. Try if it work for you.

[matteo-tosi]

Yes, it works. I have do this "fix" to run the project this afternoon, but
are you sure you would mantain version 3.1 and 5.0?
MSBuild.Locator don't return any visual studio instance, but i don't try
update this package.
Do you have only .Net 6.0 in your macchine?

[JarLob]

I have 3.1 and 6.0 (multiple minor versions) in sdk folder. Interestingly the locator returns only one - 3.1. It works, but fails to analyze. I think it is IDE only issue. By rearranging it the project settings I made it find 6.0.

[JarLob]

I intend to maintain 3.1 and 5.0 versions as long it doesn't bother me.