They are almost the same just as Daniel mentioned. The main difference is just as what you have found: Visual Studio Build step add Visual Studio Version to the build. Should I use the Visual Studio Build step or the MSBuild step? If you are building a solution, in most cases you should use the … Read more
Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.dll still ships with VS 2015. For the 2015 release, we have removed the client OM DLLs from the GAC. In the RC release you can find the DLL in c:\program files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer. It’s kind of an obscure place. The TFS 2015 client OM RTM NuGet package is now available (also … Read more
2022 This has shipped with Visual Studio 17.3. Visual Studio 2022 has recently introduced staging lines and chunks! See: Line-staging (interactive staging) Line-staging support, a.k.a. interactive staging is one of our most popular Git suggestion tickets. Line-staging can be helpful when you need to split changes across different commits. This preview includes few of the … Read more
Install Visual Studio on your build agent, then restart the build agent. Restarting the build agent will capture the added Capabilities.
You can try to change your default processor architecture in your Test Setting from X86 to X64. In my case this was the problem. This happens if the platform target of your project under test is set to x64.