Ptvs: Error when importing code coverage file on VS Community

[huguesv]

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Exception was thrown: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Coverage.Analysis, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
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OK   
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[zooba]

Coverage is not available on Community and Pro, so we should handle this exception and display a more useful message. (Maybe there's an upsell page we can link people to on visualstudio.com? I'm not sure.)

[braindamaged1]

VS2013 and VS2015 Pro WILL open coverage files (not sure about community).

VS2017 SHOULD be able to open and read code coverage files from a build server, just as VS2013 and VS2015 did... the error message thrown looks more like a bug than a deliberate attempt to remove this feature.

I keep a copy of VS2015 installed just so I can open these files.

[huguesv]

The error message box is shown from low level code in the editor factory, making it pretty difficult to avoid. It is then rethrown and displayed a second time.

If you try to open a .coveragexml file with VS File->Open, you will get the same 2 message boxes.

I reported a problem so that the code coverage folks can fix it on their end, since this doesn't just affect Python users.
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/135339/failed-to-load-microsoftvisualstudiocoverageanalys.html

[huguesv]

Nothing for us to fix, it's up to the code coverage team now.

[reyou]

@huguesv can you please link to issue forwarded to Code Coverage team, if there is one?