ZX Spectrum Emulator not working

[paulo-carmo]

I am experiencing a quite puzzling issue. I am on a Windows 10 Pro computer, having installed the Microsoft Visual Studio Community edition 2019 (version 16.11.8), from scratch, just for installing SpectNet IDE. I followed the instructions here https://dotneteer.github.io/spectnetide/getting-started/install-spectnetide-2 and I confirm that I selected for installation also the .Net desktop development. Finally I installed the SpectNet IDE itself following the same instructions. And everything seemed OK.
But it failed in the first tutorial "Tutorials v2 - Create a ZX Spectrum 48K Project". There, running the command ZX Spectrum IDE|ZX Spectrum Emulator, the emulator tool window has showed up. And then when I press 'play' in the emulator, the Spectrum ROM is not loaded, which means that I do not get the "© 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd" message nor can access to the BASIC. This means I cannot issue any BASIC command to it. I tried also invoking the emulator by right-clicking the mouse button on a .bas program and the same behaviour happens - the emulator window opens but it does not run the BASIC file. Can you help me to solve this issue?

[gusmanb]

If you have installed from nuget package that version is obsolete, try to install the latest package from the releases section.

[paulo-carmo]

Thanks @gusmanb for your reply. I have installed SpectNetIDE 2.0 (Preview 9) directly from Visual Studio by selecting the Extensions → Manage Extensions menu command and then clicking the online tab and typing “SpectNetIDE” in the search box. Is the software installed from there handled via the NuGet package manager?
Anyway, since today it already exists Preview 11, I un-installed my Preview 9 from Visual Studio, I downloaded Preview 11 from https://github.com/Dotneteer/spectnetide/releases, and I installed by double-clicking the .vsix. Unfortunately my problem is still there... the ZX emulator does not load the Spectrum ROM. Any further ideas on what could be happening?

[gusmanb]

Hmmm, strange.

Is the .rom file in the "Rom" folder of the project? Also, do you see any message in the SpectNetiDE Output pane?

[paulo-carmo]

The rom file is in the rom folder. And I even tried with the 128K and +3 and the behaviour is always the same. I don't find the SpectNetiDE Output pane. Where is it located?
I have another computer with Windows and I will try there because I run out of option to try to understand this issue...