VS2010 solution with MSTests unit tests and TFS2008 and MsBuild - fails to run unit test

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I have a build setup on my TFS server (TFS2008) and it properly builds my VS2010 solution. (I did have to change the ToolsVersion to 4.0)

My problem is when I try to include the build definition to run my MsTests based unit tests. The build fails with the following message in the BuildLog.txt files.

MSBUILD : warning : Visual Studio Team System for Software Testers or Visual Studio Team System for Software Developers is required to run tests as part of a Team Build.

I have installed Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate on this machine (the build server), but that hasnt changed anything and I am still getting the above error.

What is my build machine missing?

Configuration: TFS Server: TFS 2008 Build server: Separate machine (Has Vs2008 and VS2010 ultimate installed on it). Solutions: VS2010

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1 Answers

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To get past this error what I needed to do was install both Visual Studio 2008 Developer edition and VS2010 Ultimate on the build machine.

(you may be able to get away with VS2010 Premium).

More info: http://blog.aggregatedintelligence.com/2011/03/vs2010-tfs-2008-and-unit-tests.html

But now Mstest is failing with error code 1.