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Question

I am in the process of upgrading our existing solution to .Net 4.6.1 and have been unable to get our unit tests to run during a server build. Locally they run as expected an

Answer 1

Using .Net Core with a build pipeline in TFS 2017, my Visual Studio Test step was passing without actually executing any tests. Had to edit the step, "Advanced Execution Options" -> "Other console options" to include:

/framework:".NETCoreApp,Version=v2.0"

(That field also contains /platform:x64)