Prerequisitions for Team Foundation Service 2015 and SSDT

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We have installed the new TFS 2015 in our company and now i'm trying to make a successful CI build.

At the moment the build always fails with this message:

The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\SSDT\Microsoft.Data.Tools.Schema.SqlTasks.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.

Okay, it seems that the SSDT package is missing on the Build Server.

What i have found is, that you need to install a Visual Studio (2015?) on the maching where the agents are.

See here: Want a headless build server for SSDT without installing Visual Studio? You’re out of luck!

As far as i understand this, we need to install at least a VS 2015 Community Edition on the BuildServer to get SSDT packages compile successfully?

Questions:

  • Is the Community Edition sufficient for this?
  • When no, which licence should we use for a Professional edition or do we just need to install it and never fire it up?
  • Is there a solution other than installing Visual Studio? (Maybe i didn't found it till now)

Hopefully someone has a bit of experience with this.

Viper

Posted 2016-05-25T09:23:23.667

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