Test targets need to be part of main SDK

Right now, it seems the only way to invoke unit test projects via the test platform is to use dotnet test on the project file. The problem is that forces the CoreCLR version of the Build tasks and not all tasks work on CoreCLR.

For example: https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/Rx.NET/blob/f339ba7c0821d00f9c0cb29186c97713765a6d03/Rx.NET/Source/Tests.System.Reactive/Tests.System.Reactive.csproj

I cannot simply run dotnet test on that because the GitVersionTask is .NET Desktop only. That’s fine for building, but I then need a way to invoke the test platform once per target framework with the right parameters.

It should do whatever dotnet test is…I think it’s going to vstest.console /Framework: … with the supported frameworks.

It seems that Microsoft.TestPlatform.targets is in the CLI build but not in the main SDK. It should be in the main SDK for use with msbuild.

[clairernovotny]

This really needs to be in 1.0…otherwise, given that these targets are distributed with VS 2017 and not via NuGet, it’ll need to wait for Update 1, wont’ it?. We need a coherent unit test strategy out-of-the-box.

[srivatsn]

This issue was moved to Microsoft/vstest#387