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Launch profile environment variables are not available for substitution within the same launch profile #8191

Open drewnoakes opened 2 years ago

drewnoakes commented 2 years ago

Stems from https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Launch-profile-environment-variable-prob/10042433 (AB#1540437)

Steps to reproduce

  1. Create a launch profile
  2. Add an environment variable (e.g. FOO)
  3. Attempt to use that variable in another field such as the command line (e.g. %FOO%)

Expected behaviour

The environment variable is substituted in the other field.

Actual behaviour

No substitution occurs.

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Analysis

Our current environment variable substitution uses the environment variables of devenv.exe only. Those specified in the launch profile itself are not considered.

tmeschter commented 2 years ago

For the moment let's assume this is a regression until we can prove otherwise. If it is not a regression we can consider moving it out.

drewnoakes commented 2 years ago

I believe I tested this in older VS versions and the behaviour was the same, hence marking this as a feature request.