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Thiyagu
Thiyagu

Reputation: 133

Azure Devops pipeline is not picking latest visual studio version

'Visual studio build solution task' in the Azure pipeline has latest visual studio version selected. However from the console log I can find it is not selecting the latest version (2022) instead it is selecting the 2017 version.

Even in the console log of my previous task (Nuget restore) I can see it is picking only the 2017 version.

Is there a way that I change the solution to Visual studio version 2019.

Note: Main reason I want to use 2019 version is because current version of my MSBuild is not compatible with VS version 2017. Because of this my pipeline is failing.

Is there a way I can change the VS version in Azure Devops pipeline. Can someone guide me please?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4005

Answers (2)

ComputerKarate
ComputerKarate

Reputation: 21

Since you are not providing a basic pipeline yml file (maybe you are using classic instead of yml?), we can only guess.
Is there a possibility that the NuGetCommand task is finding a solution file in your repo that references the 2017 version of VS?
NuGetCommand will "restore" (install) the version it finds unless something else overrides.

Upvotes: 0

RKM
RKM

Reputation: 1389

Is there a way I can change the VS version in Azure Devops pipeline?

You can use a MSBUILD task and switch from Version to Specify Location and insert the path to the msbuild.exe of VS2022.

Ex: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\MSBuild\Current\Bin\msbuild.exe.

Look at the screenshot below: enter image description here

Note: Please make sure your path is correct in the MSBuild.exe task.

Upvotes: 3

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