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Can we make recording test mode switching easier

See original GitHub issue

Environment variable requires a restart Changing the source is cumbersome and leads to people checking in the test mode.

What about allowing a testmode.txt file in the test project directory that would control test mode and not require VS restart?

cc @JoshLove-msft @christothes

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Created 3 years ago
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drwill-mscommented, Sep 11, 2020

We often want to run our tests live from our dev workstations, and not necessarily re-record. I might be debugging or something. Please don’t make me do a bunch of filesystem tasks. I just want a simple, local, temporary way to switch my test mode.

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heathscommented, Jan 20, 2022

I was thinking about a VS extension that just switches the environment variable for you.

Likely wouldn’t be enough. VS starts a lot of subprocesses - even for language and build services - and all those would have to be restarted, and restarting some of those would likely crash VS. Much the same for VSCode. Just best to avoid environment variables.