I have been developing Logic App Standard for a long time and never had an issue running them locally, as far as I remember, until a few months ago. I never pay too much attention because I was not running them locally, and I didn’t block my ability to develop my solutions or workflows.
However, this week, while developing my demos for the Azure Logic Apps Community Day 2023 event, I had the need to test them locally, and every time I try to run them locally by either:
- Start Debugging
- Or Run Without Debugging
I was getting the following error:
Failed to find “func host start” task.
Cause
To be honest, I don’t know because I had all the pre-requirements installed, but I guess, and this is just me guessing, that some Azure Function extension update broke some configuration between these to extensions.
Solution
I know that you probably will not like it… but after spending a few hours, I give up and when to a drastic approach – this one – that solved the problem.
To solve this issue, you need to:
- Uninstall all Azure Functions extension dependencies.
- In my case, the Azure Logic Apps – Data Mapper and Azure Logic Apps (Standard) extensions
- Uninstall the Azure Functions extension.
- Restart Visual Studio Code
- Install all the extensions again, in my case:
- Azure Function
- Azure Logic Apps (Standard)
- Azure Logic Apps – Data Mapper
- Just to be in a safe state, restart Visual Studio Code again.
After that I was able to run my workflow locally without any issue.
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