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Asked: 2026-05-23T02:13:26+00:00

I am using MSTest in Visual Studio 2008 with C#. I have a specific

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I am using MSTest in Visual Studio 2008 with C#. I have a specific environment variable I would I would like to and a path modification I would like to do only during the run of either specific tests or better yet all test within a run configuration.

I tried using the test run configuration Setup script to do this but as I expected since it is a batch file the changes are lost once it exits, so that wont work.

Is there any other way to setup temporary system environment variables that will be valid during all tests being run?

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  1. Editorial Team

    While am not happy with this solution, I was able to get what I needed done with MSTest by using the ClassInitializeAttribute for a test class, and then using Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable to make the changes I need, and then clean this up in the method decorated with theClassCleanupAttribute.

    With lack of a better answer this was how I was able to get environment variables set for a group of tests and clean it up when I was done. However I would have prefered this to be handled outside of the CODE and be part of test configuration in some way. Regardless issues has been resolved.

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