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If you get BadImageFormatException error or you want to work with NUnit 2.2 and VS .NET 2005 beta 2, you must add

<supportedRuntime version="v2.0.50215" />

to <startup> section

so it looks like this:

<startup>
     <supportedRuntime version="v2.0.50215" />
     <supportedRuntime version="v1.1.4322" />
     <supportedRuntime version="v1.0.3705" />

     <requiredRuntime version="v1.0.3705" />
</startup>

and remember that you have to change it both in the
nunit-gui.exe.config and nunit-console.exe.config files.

v2.0.50215 is for beta 2 of VS 2005 .NET.

Best thing to do is to check what version of .NET framework you’re running.
To do it, see folder names in WindowsPath\Microsoft.NET\Framework folder (for ex. C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework)

Plus it seems that NUnit 2.2 doesn’t work when run as an external program while debugging from VS .NET 2005.
When you click Run nothing happens.

Try to download NUnit 2.2.2, it worked for me.

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My friend recently had a problem with slow debugging. It took a few minutes before debugger went to the next statement.

Clearing all breakpoints helped. He had a lot of them. So if you have the same problem, check how many breakpoints you have defined.

There are two main things that drives me crazy:

1. Erasing event handlers.
   Sometimes Visual Studio .NET 2003 erases event handlers.
   What I see is that it occurs after working in html mode. What you can do is attach events manually after the InitializeComponent() call, instead of using the properties editor.
2. “Close all documents” closes VS. NET IDE
   When you click “Window/Close All Documents” VS.NET sometimes terminates (very, very fast. I have never seen VS closing so fast).
   To avoid this try “Window/Windows” then select all windows and click “Close Window(s)”.