Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2008: Building unit test projects

Hi,

We are currently taking VS2010 for a testdrive and so far we are a little stumped with how it just won't cooperate with our existing Team Foundation Server 2008. We still have all our projects on .NET 3.5 and whenever we are now building a solution that contains a unit test project (which automatically builds in .NET 4.0) the TFS won't build it.

The .NET 4.0 framework is installed on the TFS 2008.

The error we're receiving is:

[Any CPU/Release] c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Microsoft.Common.targets(0,0): warning MSB3245: Could not resolve this reference. Could not locate the assembly "Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a, processorArchitecture=MSIL". Check to make sure the assembly exists on disk. If this reference is required by your code, you may get compilation errors.

As a temporary workaround we are now forced to remove all our test projects in order for our solutions to build.

Isn't this a bit ridiculous? Our build server isn't meant to develop on... Can't they just wrap all the necessary dll's in a "server package" or something...It does work though, and its an additional VS2010 license they can charge I suppose.

Peter 2010-05-04 08:47:52

I agree it's ridiculous, not sure about the charging though.

Darin Dimitrov 2010-05-04 09:03:10

I think VS2010 Express would do so I was wrong about the charging.

Peter 2010-05-05 11:00:13

No it won't do, as the Express Version doesn't have the Test Assemblies.

Darin Dimitrov 2010-05-05 14:09:48

Man.. that is rubbish. Time to switch to another testing framework

CraftyFella 2010-05-10 11:40:53

You also need to update the TFS 2008 build service to use .NET 4 MSBuild.http://www.richard-banks.org/2009/11/how-to-build-vs2010-solutions-using.html

Coderuckus 2010-06-02 21:38:53

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