CustomizableOutDir = true breaks MSTest.exe during command build

Question

When using CustomizableOutDir, I am having problems with the TFS Team Build command disabling MSTest.exe properly.

TFSBuild.rsp

/verbosity:diagnostic /p:CustomizableOutDir=true 

TFSBuild.proj (fragment creation solutions)

  <!-- code --> <SolutionToBuild Include="$(BuildProjectFolderPath)/../../foo.csproj"> <Properties>OutputPath=$(BinariesRoot)\WindowsServices\foo\</Properties> </SolutionToBuild> <!-- tests --> <SolutionToBuild Include="$(BuildProjectFolderPath)/../../test/test.sln"> <Targets>t1;t2</Targets> <Properties>OutputPath=$(BinariesRoot)\TestHarness\</Properties> </SolutionToBuild> 

When using <Properties>OutputPath=$(BinariesRoot)\TestHarness\</Properties> and <Properties></Properties> I get the following error at the end of the assembly:

"C: \ build \ BuildType \ TFSBuild.proj" (TargetConfiguration target) (1:12) → (CoreTestConfiguration target) →
MSBUILD: warning MSB6003: The specified executable file for the task "MSTest.exe" could not be started. Invalid directory name

After finding this article, I added the following:

  <Target Name="AfterCompile"> <ItemGroup> <SolutionOutputs Condition="'%(CompilationOutputs.Solution)' == '$(Solution)'" Include="%(RootDir)%(Directory)**\*.*" /> <ServiceOutputs Include="$(BinariesRoot)\WindowsServices\**\*.*" /> <TestHarnessOutputs Include="$(BinariesRoot)\TestHarness\*.*" /> </ItemGroup> <Copy SourceFiles="@(SolutionOutputs)" DestinationFolder="$(TeamBuildOutDir)" /> <Copy SourceFiles="@(ServiceOutputs)" DestinationFolder="$(TeamBuildOutDir)" /> <Copy SourceFiles="@(TestHarnessOutputs)" DestinationFolder="$(TeamBuildOutDir)" /> </Target> 

What it gave:

(AfterCompile target) →
C: \ build \ BuildType \ TFSBuild.proj (289.5): error MSB3023: there is no destination for copying. Please put either "DestinationFiles" or "DestinationDirectory".

DestinationDirectory is not part of the http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003 schema, but I decided that I would try it anyway. So I changed all DestinationFolder to copy tasks on DestinationDirectory and, as expected, got the following:

(AfterCompile target) →
C: \ build \ BuildType \ TFSBuild.proj (288.44): error MSB4064: The "DestinationDirectory" parameter is not supported by the Copy task. Verify that a parameter exists on the task, and this is a custom publication property of the instance.
C: \ build \ BuildType \ TFSBuild.proj (288.5): error MSB4063: the "Copy" task could not be initialized by entering it Parameters.

Does anyone have CustomizableOutDir and MSTest working together according to their Team TFS build?

EDIT:

I found this discussion and applied this change:

 <Target Name="BeforeTest"> <!-- The tests won't run if the binaries directory does not exist --> <MakeDir Directories="$(BinariesRoot)\%(ConfigurationToBuild.FlavorToBuild)" Condition="!Exists('$(BinariesRoot)\%(ConfigurationToBuild.FlavorToBuild)')" /> </Target> 

The result is:

"C: \ build \ BuildType \ TFSBuild.proj" (Target RunTest) (1:11) → "C: \ build \ BuildType \ TFSBuild.proj" (TargetConfiguration target) (1:12) → (Goal CoreTestConfiguration) →
MSBUILD: warning MSB6006: "MSTest.exe" exited with code 1.

Answer 1

This made tfs / mstest / msbuild happy.

 <Target Name="BeforeTest"> <!-- The tests won't run if the binaries directory does not exist --> <MakeDir Directories="$(BinariesRoot)\%(ConfigurationToBuild.FlavorToBuild)" Condition="!Exists('$(BinariesRoot)\%(ConfigurationToBuild.FlavorToBuild)')" /> </Target> 

Failure to complete any test results was another issue in the deployment configuration and test window.