VS Test failing in Pipelines with missing 'Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk'
I have solved my problem by revising my filter to find test assemblies. When i was messing around with my test step, accidentally set the filter to "/**/UnitTests.dll" and i did not realise that it was also matching UnitTests.dll in the "obj" folder and that folder does not have .deps.json files. From the logs i noticed that it was running tests twice (once for each matching dll) so then i ignored the obj folder by reverting back my filter to exclude obj folder. So i guess two things to take care in such cases,
- You must have "Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk" installed on your test project and
- Your filter does not include or exclude any unwanted dll(s) which you (don't want / want to) be there
If anyone gets this after upgrading to .Net 5.0 it now creates a reference assembly in the ref folder, with the same name as the output assembly. You need to ignore this in your search criteria:
!**/ref/**