We have a build definition in TFS 2015 that have worked fine with Visual Studio 2015 projects and solutions. We have now decided to upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 and thus we would like to target Visual Studio 2017 in the Visual Studio build task. We have installed Visual Studio 2017 on the build agent. Unfortunately the only options available int the Visual Studio build task are 2012, 2013, 2015 and Latest. We have tried latest but it does not find Visual Studio 2017 on the build agent. It won't work with the msbuild task either.
TFS 2015 visual studio build task does not support VS 2017
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WiX and InstallShield can both do it but both will take a huge learning curve either way. NSIS can do it also, if you consider running vbscripts during an installer elegant. Someone with experience could help you ramp up faster.
I installed the latest SSDT preview for Visual Studio 2015 from the link below on 2 machines I have with VS 2015 Community edition (Update 1), and CodeLens started working for all my projects.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt204009.aspx
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Best Answer
I have a similiar issue and resolved by installing VS2017 in my build agent server and configuring MSBuild to point to my MSBuild 15.0 folder:
On the Advanced options, expand and fill the 'Path to MSBuild' like the image below: