MSBuild in TeamCity of Visual Studio 2012 solution

Question

I have a VS 2012 web project /sln that I am trying to build in TeamCity. it uses .NET 4.5 which is installed on TeamCity.

The TeamCity server has VS 2010 in

Answer 1

Turns out it's really simple. To make MSBuild run VS2010 as the builder on a solution made by VS2012 in TeamCity, simply set the environment variable for the build configuration like this:

Name: env.VisualStudioVersion 
Value: 10.0

Note TeamCity does not need VS2012 installed.