MSTest not using my projects target framework

Question

I have a simple C# UnitTest project with a single test that targets .net 4.5.2

The test looks like this:

[TestMethod]
public void TestMethod()
{
  Assert.AreEqual("A © B © C © D ☺ E 𑄑 F", HttpUtility.HtmlDecode("A &copy; B &#169; C &#xA9; D &#x263a; E &#x11111; F"));
}

When I run the test in VS2015 everything passes as expected.

The problem is when I run the test using MSTest. The test fails with the output

Assert.AreEqual failed. Expected:<A © B © C © D ☺ E 𑄑 F>. Actual:<A © B © C © D ☺ E 𑄑 F>.

Based on the Actual output it appears to be using .net 4 which is not the target framework of my project.

I'm running mstest.exe from

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\MSTest.exe

Am i doing something wrong here or is there a different version of MSTest I should be using?

EDIT: Looking at the MSTest output I think my logic is backwards here. MSTest is correctly failing where Visual Studio is not.

John Koerner · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-05 17:12:50Z

1

MSTest.exe is deprecated and should only be used for backwards compatibility for projects from VS2010.

You can run the tests using VSTest.Console.exe and you will see the same result that you are seeing in Visual Studio.

VSTest.console.exe can be found at: %VS140COMNTOOLS%\..\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow\vstest.console.exe

answered Jul 5, 2016 at 17:12

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