windows-2022. Visual Studio: System.ArgumentException : The parameter is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070057 (E_INVALIDARG))

[sorokinva]

Description

Im using https://github.com/microsoft/vs-extension-testing for integration tests of Visual Studio extension in azure pipelines, when azure updated windows-2022 image to 20240912.1.0 it started to fail, It went normally on 20240811.1.0

[xUnit.net 00:30:35.00]   Finished:    VisualStudioPluginIntegrationTests
  Failed VisualStudioPluginIntegrationTests.Tests.ExtensionSmokeTests.TestExtensionStarts_Async (VS2022) [1 ms]
  Error Message:
   System.InvalidOperationException : Test execution was skipped due to a prior exception in the harness.
---- System.ArgumentException : The parameter is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070057 (E_INVALIDARG))
  Stack Trace:
     at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
----- Inner Stack Trace -----
   at EnvDTE.Commands.Item(Object index, Int32 ID)
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ConfiguredTaskAwaitable.ConfiguredTaskAwaiter.GetResult()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ConfiguredTaskAwaitable`1.ConfiguredTaskAwaiter.GetResult()
  Passed Xunit.Instances.VisualStudio (VS2022, Exp) [1 ms]

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions - Standard Runners
• GitHub Actions - Larger Runners

Runner images affected

• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• Ubuntu 24.04
• macOS 12
• macOS 13
• macOS 13 Arm64
• macOS 14
• macOS 14 Arm64
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Image version and build link

20240912.1.0

Is it regression?

20240811.1.0

Expected behavior

Tests passed

Actual behavior

Tests failed

Repro steps

1. Create xunit test project with https://github.com/microsoft/vs-extension-testing
2. Run in azure pipeline targeting vs2022

[kishorekumar-anchala]

Hi @sorokinva ,

Thank you for bringing this issue to us. We are looking into this issue and will update you on this issue after investigating.

[mrmundt]

This may be related based on Google searches (and if it's not - I'll happily open an issue), but we started getting this error after the Windows image update:

Building in 'C:\Users\RUNNER~1\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpv678cbu_'
ERROR: DistutilsPlatformError: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is
required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools":
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

See example run: https://github.com/Pyomo/pyomo/actions/runs/10942938274/job/30381198414?pr=3373 (Windows jobs)