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How to open .coverage file


I have created a .coverage file using Vsperfmon.exe

I am currently using VS 2012 professional for web licensed edition. The .coverage result cannot be opened in VS Professional. After Googling I have come to know that VS Ultimate can open it

Rather than using VS Ultimate, is there any plugins for VS professional 2012 or any 3rd party solutions


Solution

  • I've spent some time researching this today, as I'm in a similar situation; I have a .coverage file generated by TFS, and VS 2012 Pro, and I can't view the file. As far as I can tell, the answer is "You need VS Premium or Ultimate to view .coverage files."

    I found https://github.com/danielpalme/ReportGenerator, which generates reports based on XML-formatted coverage files. It includes instructions for converting .coverage to XML (see https://github.com/danielpalme/ReportGenerator/wiki/Visual-Studio-Coverage-Tools), but that process depends on Microsoft.VisualStudio.Coverage.Analysis which isn't present in VS Pro.