Restore has failed. Check if dotnet is installed and available in PATH.

[evgeniiworkst]

Description

when dotnet restore i see error "Restore has failed. Check if dotnet is installed and available in PATH."

In my project, I use the GhostDoc plugin for VS2022, which generates a file called project.sln.GhostDoc.xml. For some reason, cdxgen includes it for analysis (even though it shouldn't) and throws an error stating that it is not supported. In index.js, the error handling consists of multiple if-else statements, and in the very last else block, if it cannot find the error text, it outputs an error indicating that the dotnet PATH is not found, which is not true.

There is a hypothesis that cdxgen parses files not with a strict regular expression and, instead of project.sln, it takes project.sln* for analysis.

[evgeniiworkst]

[prabhu]

Have you tried passing the argument --exclude *.sln*.xml

[evgeniiworkst]

@prabhu This will certainly work, but is the logic for searching files with the regular expression sln* correct? Are there any solution files other than the standard sln? Can you provide examples? Why then are files like {cs,vb,fs,ts,hmi,plc}proj not treated as csproj* etc?