
For the performance issue, I suggest you to: 1. Let's see what happens after we fixed 1st question. For the second issue, I suspect it is also related to issue 1. Please read the answer of the post at to set properties or environment viarables to let desktop know where is the Visual Studio installed folder. If you have already installed one of the editions above.
VISUAL STUDIO FOR MAC RUN UNIT TEST FROM COMMAND LINE INSTALL
In order to run other kinds of tests such as web tests during a build, you need to install Visual Studio Team System Test edition or Suite.

In order to run unit tests, you need Visual Studio Team System Development edition, Test edition or Suite installed. is there something similar for desktop build? thanks dan Also the builds are extremely slow, it seems it is continually rebuilding all dependencies (we have over 70 projects in our solution) I know we speed up the builds on the server by installing a hotfix. The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. 0 file(s) copied.\MergeModules\xxx\yyyy\zzzz.dll The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. And also I am getting files not found in other areas: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. Confirm that the declaration is correct, and that the assembly and all its dependencies are available. The system cannot find the file specified. Could not load file or assembly 'file:///D:\PrivateAssemblies\.dll' or one of its dependencies. but now I am getting this error: error MSB4062: The "TestToolsTask" task could not be loaded from the assembly \PrivateAssemblies\.dll. But actually, I realized I had the wrong path set up. Procmon could not find anything with those filters.
