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

Firstly, TeamCity does not require presence of Visual Studio of any version to build. When a build step in the project is configured with MSBuild runner TeamCity needs to know which version of MSBuild to use. This is a setting of a build step. Proper MSBuild version must be selected in a build step configuration according to the .NET tools installed on a build machine. TeamCity will use that value to determine the location path and will set an environment variable when invokes MSBuild.

The problem with the Visual Studio 2012/2013 is that it's only supported by TeamCity starting 8.1.0. So if your TeamCity version is before 8.1. you need to upgrade to the latest 8.1.x to see a setting for MSBuild Tools 2013. Once you select a proper MSBuild version in the build step settings the problem will disappear. For more information read here: http://blog.turlov.com/2014/07/upgrade-teamcity-to-enable-support-for.html