Teststand fails to use app with custom user settings

[chouch]

Hello,

For a teststand project, I have to use an .Net application that is using a custom settings provider. The problem with it is that each time it is trying to use one of the user setting from teststand, the application returns an exception:

"Failed to load provider type".

I tried to illustrate with the small demo project that I attached.

The .Net application I call from test stand is AppWithUserSetting, and one of the step in the sequence File q.seq is to get a value of a user setting. That's where it crashes for me.

On the other hand, if I instantiate the same objects and read the same user setting from another .Net application (DoLikeTestStandApp), everything is fine.

Note that in the settings.designer.cs file of AppWithUserSetting, a custom line was added ([global::System.Configuration.SettingsProvider(typeof(AppWithUserSettings.UserAppSettingsProvider))] ) to force the program to use the custom SettingProvider. And that's where it fails when loading from teststand.

Any idea why? At this time, I would rather not remove the usage of that  custom settingProvider since it allows to keep user settings even when upgrading to different version of AppWithUserSettings.

Thanks and regards,

Loic

PS: I am using VS studio 2008 SP1 and Teststand 4.1.1

[ninlmartijn]

Dear Loic.

Thank you so much for your post on our webforum and the great example. I noticed the problem and a few day back I forwarded this to my colleagues in the US. This is not the behaviour we suspected so the issue will be reviewed by our R&D team. I will inform you when I have any more news.

Best regards,

[chouch]

Martijn,

Thanks for looking into the issue.

Best regards,

Loic 

[dug9000]

I believe you are running into the same problem as this poster:

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=330&thread.id=27317&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

Please read the posts and see if any of this information is helpful in solving your problem.

-Doug

[Manooch_H · Accepted solution]

Loic -

As Doug mentioned, you are indeed running into an issue similar to the one in the other forum thread he pointed to. I have gone ahead and implemented the workaround solution for this issue in your provided example and attached it below.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions.

[Manooch_H]

Loic -

I forgot to mention that if you implement this solution after already receiving the error, and you receive the error again, please try closing TestStand and re-starting it.

[chouch]

Manooch,

Great! Thanks for the workaround it works perfectly.

Regards,

Loic