VS 2012 Unit Test issues on TFS 2010

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I have a VS 2012 solution that includes a number of unit test projects. I work on a team with a fairly large scale implementation of TFS 2010. I have a dedicated VS 2010 build controller/agent for this solution.

After installing .NET 4.5 and the .NET 4.5 SDK on the TFS 2010 based build controller/agent I am able to successfully build my solution.

However, the build server will not execute the VS 2012 based unit tests. I was getting error messages relating to the Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework.dll used by the Test projects. I added that dll to source control and referenced the version of the dll in source control, but still got the same errors during the build.

I installed VS 2012 on the build server as a last resort. Now I don't get errors relating to the Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework.dll, but the build runs indefinitely.

  1. Is this a supported scenario? Should I be able to run VS 2012 unit tests on a TFS 2010 Build Controller/Agent?
  2. If this is supported, what steps are required to make it happen?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Try making the references to the Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework assembly not Version Specific. – DaveShaw
I'm not sure how to do that. When I add reference, I'm only able to select version specific assemblies. What would go on behind the scenes in this case? – Paul
If you select the reference in the project and right click, properties you will see an option to set version specific. – DaveShaw
@Paul, did you ever get anywhere with this? I'm encountering the same problem. – TarkaDaal
@TarkaDaal, Unfortunately no, I didn't. I wound up moving my project to a TFS 2012 instance. – Paul

1 Answers

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We had the same issue. We had VS 2010 and 2012 installed on the build server. It's apparently a known bug in VS 2010 - it uses the wrong version of MS Test. If you install VS 2010 SP1 on the build server, this should fix it.

See this link:

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/728659/mstest-not-working-after-installing-vs11-next-to-vs10