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Authenticate the Lightrun plugin in the Visual Studio IDE

Important

The Lightrun extension for Visual Studio, referred to hereafter as the "Lightrun plugin", is in public beta.

Whenever you start working with the Lightrun plugin in Visual Studio, you must first log in with your Lightrun user.

Prerequisites

These instructions assume that you have:

Sign in to the Lightrun plugin

  1. From the Visual Studio menu bar, go to the View tab in the menu bar, scroll down and select Other Windows > Lightrun.

    Visual sign-in --half

  2. Click Sign in.
    A browser window opens with the Lightrun login page.
    Login dialog --half

  3. Log in to Lightrun with your user credentials.
    After you are logged in, the Lightrun page reloads with a confirmation message. Notice that there is a timeout configured; you might need to re-login if the timeout elapses.

    Success Window --half

  4. Return to Visual Studio.
    The Lightrun plugin indicates that the service is connected.

    Service connected --half

Note

If the Lightrun plugin is authenticated successfully, but the No Lightrun agents available warning is displayed, this means no agents currently are attached and running with your application.

Next steps

  1. Run a Lightrun agent with your app, depending on your runtime environment (Java | Python| Node.js | .NET).
  2. After you run your app with the Lightrun agent attached, you can begin to insert logs, and snapshots.
Last update: December 18, 2024