Cant apply coverage exclusion attrib. to method

When I apply an exclusion attribute to a method in NCover, then view the report in NCoverExplorer all the sequence points in the method are reported as 0% coverage instead of being excluded completely.

Am I misunderstanding this ? I think I have a pretty simple example, basically something like this:

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.All)]
internal sealed class CoverageExcludeAttribute : Attribute { }

class Test
{
  [CoverageExclude]
  private void LoadState()
{
  ...
    }
}

The XML generated by NCover looks something like this:

Note the excluded="true" attribute in but also note the ex="false" attribute in the individual ? Are these contradictory ? (I'm assuming ex means excluded - if I manually change the ex attributes of the sqpnt's to true I get the behavior I expected)

I'm doing all this via the MSBuild task, everything else is working great (I love the product!), I can successfully exclude by type or file using the other NCover parameters, but I just can't seem to get the exclusion attribute doing what I expect.

Thanks in advance for any advice ! - Jake

RE: Cant apply coverage exclusion attrib. to metho

Oops, looks like your forum software doesn't escape markup correctly (and I didn't read the formatting guide!)... here is small sample of the coverage xml file with markup angle brackets replaced with square brackets:

[method name="Foo" signature="LoadState() : void" excluded="true" instrumented="false"] [seqpnt vc="0" l="66" el="66" c="9" ec="10" ex="false" fl="65793" doc="1" /] [seqpnt vc="0" l="67" el="67" c="13" ec="67" ex="false" fl="65536" doc="1" /] [/method]

Again, note the excluded="true" and ex="false" attributes

RE: Cant apply coverage exclusion attrib. to method

Jake,

you are correct, this is a bug in the exclusion attribute implementation. I've created a support ticket for it, which you can see here: https://gnoso.fogbugz.com/default.asp?461

We're busy preparing for the 2.0.3 release now, so if we can't fix this in the 2.0.3 release, we'll fix it in the next.

Regards, Stepehn Ward

RE: Cant apply coverage exclusion attrib. to metho

Great. Thanks for the update.

Good job on a great product.

Jake

RE: Cant apply coverage exclusion attrib. to method

Stepehn,

I tried to view the bug, but I need the case number, not the bug number.

I have a FogBugz account, just not on your domain.

Thanks

Joe