Discovering Tests process does NOT populate the .NET Test Explorer Pane

Project Path issue...

I've read too many posts about this issue and can't find a solution for the discovery process to work...
But, still, on the .Net Test Explorer (v0.7.7) Pane on VSCode Version: 1.62.3 (user setup), the tests can only be found if I click on the "Run All Tests" button, (which is not what I need.) and it keeps giving me the "No tests found", even after tests are discovered by clicking on "Run All Tests" I can't run a specific test...

When I open VSCode and look at the .Net Test Explorer output, it reads like this:
Starting extension
Finding projects for pattern c:/[path to my project]/**/*.Tests.csproj
Found 1 matches for pattern in folder c:\[path to my project]
Evaluating match c:/[path to my project]/XYX.Tests/XYZ.Tests.csproj
Adding directory c:/[path to my project]/XYZ.Tests
Executing dotnet test -t -v=q in c:/[path to my project]/XYZ.Tests

Manually executing the command "dotnet test -t -v=n [full test project path]" it tells me that all X tests were found...

These are the package references on my main/test .csproj files...
Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk - Version=17.0.0
NUnit - Version=3.13.2
NUnit.Console - Version=3.11.1
NUnit3Testadapter - Version=4.1.0
TestCentric.Metadata - Version=1.7.1

Sorry if I missed the post that fixes this issue... can someone give me some other places to look?
IDK what else can be looked at :(