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Asked: 2026-05-24T11:26:05+00:00

Say (100% hypothetically) that I’ve accidentally added a unit test project as project type

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Say (100% hypothetically) that I’ve accidentally added a unit test project as project type “Class library” to a VS2010 solution. I’ve then added the assemblies needed to run it as a Unit Test project, but MSTest won’t pick up on it when I hit “Run all tests in solution”. What are the criterias here?

I had a couple of theories, which all have failed so far:

  • Something in the .testsettings file (no references to any assemblies here as far as I can see)
  • Something in the .SLN file (can’t find anything)
  • Something in AssemblyInfo.cs (no, it’s not)
  • Implict by referencing the (…)UnitTestFramwork.dll (Obv not)

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  1. Editorial Team

    In the project file, there’s an XML element with the name ProjectTypeGuids, that holds a few GUIDs that denote test project. Example as follows.

    <Project>
  <PropertyGroup>
    <ProjectTypeGuids>{3AC096D0-A1C2-E12C-1390-A8335801FDAB};{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}</ProjectTypeGuids>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

    Here’s a list of known project type GUIDs for Visual Studio 2010: http://onlinecoder.blogspot.com/2009/09/visual-studio-projects-project-type.html

    In the example above, it shows the project to be of type Test and Windows (C#).

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