Is it possible to configure TeamCity to use the MSBuild that ships with Visual Studio 2015?

Question

I\'m attempting to build an ASP.NET vNext project in TeamCity. When it tries to build, I get the following error:

C:\\...\\MyApp.kproj(7, 3): error MSB4019: The i

Answer 1

Edit: As of TeamCity 9.x, all works out of the box, but for earlier versions, the below is a solution.

The project import problem should be solved by setting a env.VSToolsPath environment property to C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0.

However, you will not be able to build using the TeamCity included MSBuild runner. But using a command-line runner is very simple. I extracted a meta-runner like this. It has almost the same functionality as the included TeamCity MSBuild 2013 runner. If you need more configurability, just add more parameters.

My meta-runner ended up looking like this:

  MSBuild 2015 command line runner
  
    
      
      
    
    
      
        
          
          
          
        
      
    
    
  

Note: TeamCity 9.1, due for Q2 2015 is expected to build VS2015 projects natively.