VS Test failing in Pipelines with missing 'Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk' - azure-devops

I'm getting a failed builds due to the Visual Studio Test step failing in my Build Pipeline.
I have a simple .NET Core v2.1 class library and associated MS Test library. I have 2 steps in my pipeline:
A .NET Core build step, and
A Visual Studio Test step
Both projects target the netcoreapp2.1 framework, see below for .csproj files.
I have tried enabling and disabling the Code coverage option, but this make no difference.
Thanks in advance,
Kaine
.csproj files
Main Project
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.1</TargetFramework>
<AssemblyName>Trustmarque.Core.ExtensionMethods</AssemblyName>
<RootNamespace>Trustmarque.Core.ExtensionMethods</RootNamespace>
<GeneratePackageOnBuild>true</GeneratePackageOnBuild>
<Description>Generalised class extension methods build on the .NET Core.</Description>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json" Version="11.0.2" />
</ItemGroup>
</Project>
Test Project
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.1</TargetFramework>
<IsPackable>false</IsPackable>
<AssemblyName>Trustmarque.Core.ExtensionMethods.Tests</AssemblyName>
<RootNamespace>Trustmarque.Core.ExtensionMethods.Tests</RootNamespace>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk" Version="15.9.0" />
<PackageReference Include="MSTest.TestAdapter" Version="1.3.2" />
<PackageReference Include="MSTest.TestFramework" Version="1.3.2" />
</ItemGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<ProjectReference Include="..\ExtensionMethods\ExtensionMethods.csproj" />
</ItemGroup>
</Project>
YAML
queue:
name: Hosted VS2017
demands: vstest
steps:
- task: DotNetCoreCLI#2
displayName: '.NET Core Build'
- task: VSTest#2
displayName: 'VS Unit Test'
inputs:
testFiltercriteria: /diag
codeCoverageEnabled: true
otherConsoleOptions: '/framework:".NETCoreApp,Version=2.1"'
Test Output Log
2018-11-14T09:33:56.0414482Z ##[section]Starting: VS Unit Test
2018-11-14T09:33:56.0420823Z ==============================================================================
2018-11-14T09:33:56.0420887Z Task : Visual Studio Test
2018-11-14T09:33:56.0420941Z Description : Run unit and functional tests (Selenium, Appium, Coded UI test, etc.) using the Visual Studio Test (VsTest) runner. Test frameworks that have a Visual Studio test adapter such as MsTest, xUnit, NUnit, Chutzpah (for JavaScript tests using QUnit, Mocha and Jasmine), etc. can be run. Tests can be distributed on multiple agents using this task (version 2).
2018-11-14T09:33:56.0420983Z Version : 2.142.12
2018-11-14T09:33:56.0421033Z Author : Microsoft Corporation
2018-11-14T09:33:56.0421089Z Help : [More information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=835764)
2018-11-14T09:33:56.0421126Z ==============================================================================
2018-11-14T09:33:56.9036862Z SystemVssConnection exists true
2018-11-14T09:33:57.0359241Z SystemVssConnection exists true
2018-11-14T09:33:57.1181619Z Running tests using vstest.console.exe runner.
2018-11-14T09:33:57.1181728Z ======================================================
2018-11-14T09:33:57.1182048Z Test selector : Test assemblies
2018-11-14T09:33:57.1182141Z Test filter criteria : null
2018-11-14T09:33:57.1182212Z Search folder : D:\a\1\s
2018-11-14T09:33:57.1182743Z VisualStudio version selected for test execution : latest
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8312901Z Run in parallel : false
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8314015Z Run in isolation : false
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8315114Z Path to custom adapters : null
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8319882Z Other console options : /framework:".NETCoreApp,Version=2.1"
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8320427Z Code coverage enabled : true
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8320689Z Diagnostics enabled : false
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8322155Z SystemVssConnection exists true
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8348561Z Run the tests locally using vstest.console.exe
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8348848Z ========================================================
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8349439Z Test selector : Test assemblies
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8352816Z Test assemblies : **\*test*.dll,!**\*TestAdapter.dll,!**\obj\**
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8353669Z Test filter criteria : null
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8360790Z Search folder : D:\a\1\s
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8361971Z Run settings file : D:\a\1\s
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8369736Z Run in parallel : false
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8370326Z Run in isolation : false
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8392182Z Path to custom adapters : null
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8393171Z Other console options : /framework:".NETCoreApp,Version=2.1"
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8395168Z Code coverage enabled : true
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8396140Z Diagnostics enabled : false
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8398717Z Rerun failed tests: false
2018-11-14T09:33:57.8401805Z VisualStudio version selected for test execution : latest
2018-11-14T09:33:58.9933609Z ========================================================
2018-11-14T09:33:58.9973631Z ======================================================
2018-11-14T09:33:59.0613609Z [command]"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow\vstest.console.exe" #D:\a\_temp\69e3bc61-e7f0-11e8-8572-4338aa006dd6.txt
2018-11-14T09:34:06.3128046Z Microsoft (R) Test Execution Command Line Tool Version 15.8.0
2018-11-14T09:34:06.3130539Z Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
2018-11-14T09:34:06.3131113Z
2018-11-14T09:34:06.6145727Z vstest.console.exe
2018-11-14T09:34:06.6146432Z "D:\a\1\s\ExtensionMethods.Tests\bin\Debug\netcoreapp2.1\Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.MSTestAdapter.PlatformServices.Interface.dll"
2018-11-14T09:34:06.6147591Z "D:\a\1\s\ExtensionMethods.Tests\bin\Debug\netcoreapp2.1\Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.MSTestAdapter.PlatformServices.dll"
2018-11-14T09:34:06.6147793Z "D:\a\1\s\ExtensionMethods.Tests\bin\Debug\netcoreapp2.1\Trustmarque.Core.ExtensionMethods.Tests.dll"
2018-11-14T09:34:06.6149501Z /EnableCodeCoverage
2018-11-14T09:34:06.6149657Z /logger:"trx"
2018-11-14T09:34:06.6149783Z /TestAdapterPath:"D:\a\1\s"
2018-11-14T09:34:06.6149907Z /framework:".NETCoreApp,Version=2.1"
2018-11-14T09:34:12.8077290Z Starting test execution, please wait...
2018-11-14T09:34:14.8437128Z Test run will use DLL(s) built for framework .NETCoreApp,Version=v2.1 and platform X86. Following DLL(s) do not match framework/platform settings.
2018-11-14T09:34:14.8437793Z Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.MSTestAdapter.PlatformServices.Interface.dll is built for Framework 4.5 and Platform AnyCPU.
2018-11-14T09:34:14.8438215Z Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.MSTestAdapter.PlatformServices.dll is built for Framework 1.5 and Platform AnyCPU.
2018-11-14T09:34:14.8438617Z Go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=236877&clcid=0x409 for more details on managing these settings.
2018-11-14T09:34:14.8438786Z
2018-11-14T09:34:23.5616980Z M i c r o s o f t ( R ) C o v e r a g e C o l l e c t i o n T o o l V e r s i o n 1 5 . 0 . 3 0 3 1 9 . 0
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2018-11-14T09:34:24.4903850Z 2.8847
2018-11-14T09:34:25.4504736Z System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Unable to find tests for D:\a\1\s\ExtensionMethods.Tests\bin\Debug\netcoreapp2.1\Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.MSTestAdapter.PlatformServices.Interface.dll. Make sure test project has a nuget reference of package "Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk" and framework version settings are appropriate. Rerun with /diag option to diagnose further.
2018-11-14T09:34:25.4504927Z at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.CrossPlatEngine.Hosting.DotnetTestHostManager.GetTestHostProcessStartInfo(IEnumerable`1 sources, IDictionary`2 environmentVariables, TestRunnerConnectionInfo connectionInfo)
2018-11-14T09:34:25.4505025Z at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.CrossPlatEngine.Client.ProxyOperationManager.SetupChannel(IEnumerable`1 sources)
2018-11-14T09:34:25.4505077Z at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.CrossPlatEngine.Client.ProxyExecutionManager.StartTestRun(TestRunCriteria testRunCriteria, ITestRunEventsHandler eventHandler)
2018-11-14T09:34:25.6678123Z M i c r o s o f t ( R ) C o v e r a g e C o l l e c t i o n T o o l V e r s i o n 1 5 . 0 . 3 0 3 1 9 . 0
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2018-11-14T09:34:25.6678492Z C o p y r i g h t ( c ) M i c r o s o f t C o r p o r a t i o n . A l l r i g h t s r e s e r v e d .
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2018-11-14T09:34:26.8351769Z M i c r o s o f t ( R ) C o v e r a g e C o l l e c t i o n T o o l V e r s i o n 1 5 . 0 . 3 0 3 1 9 . 0
2018-11-14T09:34:26.8351940Z
2018-11-14T09:34:26.8352006Z
2018-11-14T09:34:26.8352092Z C o p y r i g h t ( c ) M i c r o s o f t C o r p o r a t i o n . A l l r i g h t s r e s e r v e d .
2018-11-14T09:34:26.8352125Z
2018-11-14T09:34:26.8352155Z
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2018-11-14T09:34:26.8352227Z
2018-11-14T09:34:26.8788931Z 2.3838
2018-11-14T09:34:26.8898822Z System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Unable to find tests for D:\a\1\s\ExtensionMethods.Tests\bin\Debug\netcoreapp2.1\Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.MSTestAdapter.PlatformServices.dll. Make sure test project has a nuget reference of package "Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk" and framework version settings are appropriate. Rerun with /diag option to diagnose further.
2018-11-14T09:34:26.8899122Z at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.CrossPlatEngine.Hosting.DotnetTestHostManager.GetTestHostProcessStartInfo(IEnumerable`1 sources, IDictionary`2 environmentVariables, TestRunnerConnectionInfo connectionInfo)
2018-11-14T09:34:26.8899942Z at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.CrossPlatEngine.Client.ProxyOperationManager.SetupChannel(IEnumerable`1 sources)
2018-11-14T09:34:26.8900007Z at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.CrossPlatEngine.Client.ProxyExecutionManager.StartTestRun(TestRunCriteria testRunCriteria, ITestRunEventsHandler eventHandler)
2018-11-14T09:34:26.9247283Z M i c r o s o f t ( R ) C o v e r a g e C o l l e c t i o n T o o l V e r s i o n 1 5 . 0 . 3 0 3 1 9 . 0
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2018-11-14T09:34:26.9247520Z C o p y r i g h t ( c ) M i c r o s o f t C o r p o r a t i o n . A l l r i g h t s r e s e r v e d .
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2018-11-14T09:34:27.4568504Z
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2018-11-14T09:34:33.4517174Z M i c r o s o f t ( R ) C o v e r a g e C o l l e c t i o n T o o l V e r s i o n 1 5 . 0 . 3 0 3 1 9 . 0
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2018-11-14T09:34:33.7048135Z Passed Timestamp_DateTime_CurrentDateTime_FormatAndValuesMatch
2018-11-14T09:34:33.7048569Z Passed ToJson_Object_ReturnsStringRepresentation
2018-11-14T09:34:33.7048660Z Passed ToJsonString_Object_ReturnsStringRepresentationIncludingObjectType
2018-11-14T09:34:33.7049036Z Passed IsNullOrEmpty_String_EmptyAndNullValues
2018-11-14T09:34:33.7049135Z Passed IsNullOrEmpty_String_NonEmptyOrNullValues
2018-11-14T09:34:33.7049190Z Passed Parse_String_ValidTypeParses_CorrectTypes
2018-11-14T09:34:33.7049257Z Passed Parse_String_ValidTypeParses_DefaultTypes
2018-11-14T09:34:33.7049297Z Passed FromJson_String_ValidObjects
2018-11-14T09:34:33.7049338Z Passed FromJson_String_InvalidObjects
2018-11-14T09:34:33.7049402Z Passed IsValidEmailAddress_String_ValidEmailAddresses_ReturnTrue
2018-11-14T09:34:33.7049465Z Passed IsValidEmailAddress_String_InvalidEmailAddresses_ReturnFalse
2018-11-14T09:34:35.8172642Z Results File: D:\a\1\s\TestResults\VssAdministrator_factoryvm-az552_2018-11-14_09_34_33.trx
2018-11-14T09:34:35.8203749Z
2018-11-14T09:34:35.8210373Z Attachments:
2018-11-14T09:34:35.8210758Z D:\a\1\s\TestResults\6c92c0b5-2e35-48af-867a-2a4575306a68\VssAdministrator_factoryvm-az552 2018-11-14 09_34_22.coverage
2018-11-14T09:34:35.8211079Z
2018-11-14T09:34:35.8211397Z Total tests: Unknown. Passed: 11. Failed: 0. Skipped: 0.
2018-11-14T09:34:35.8211670Z Test Run Aborted.
2018-11-14T09:34:35.8211939Z Test execution time: 10.7395 Seconds
2018-11-14T09:34:36.0240507Z ##[warning]Vstest failed with error. Check logs for failures. There might be failed tests.
2018-11-14T09:34:36.0769776Z ##[error]Error: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow\vstest.console.exe failed with return code: 1
2018-11-14T09:34:36.3170630Z ##[error]VsTest task failed.
2018-11-14T09:34:36.3566464Z ##[section]Async Command Start: Publish test results
2018-11-14T09:34:36.4181634Z Publishing test results to test run '6'
2018-11-14T09:34:36.4181725Z Test results remaining: 11. Test run id: 6
2018-11-14T09:34:36.9962474Z Published Test Run : https://dev.azure.com/TrustmarqueIT/Test_2018-10-30/_TestManagement/Runs#runId=6&_a=runCharts
2018-11-14T09:34:36.9971952Z ##[section]Async Command End: Publish test results
2018-11-14T09:34:36.9972803Z ##[section]Finishing: VS Unit Test

I have solved my problem by revising my filter to find test assemblies. When i was messing around with my test step, accidentally set the filter to "/**/UnitTests.dll" and i did not realise that it was also matching UnitTests.dll in the "obj" folder and that folder does not have .deps.json files. From the logs i noticed that it was running tests twice (once for each matching dll) so then i ignored the obj folder by reverting back my filter to exclude obj folder. So i guess two things to take care in such cases,
You must have "Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk" installed on your test
project and
Your filter does not include or exclude any unwanted
dll(s) which you (don't want / want to) be there

If anyone gets this after upgrading to .Net 5.0 it now creates a reference assembly in the ref folder, with the same name as the output assembly. You need to ignore this in your search criteria:
!**/ref/**

Thanks #Gurpreet for prompting me to document my solution.
It's been quite a while, so my memory of the steps is a bit shaky, but I believe that my mistake was thinking that, on the first screen after selecting a source repository, I assumed the templates listed were all that was available and that Empty job was the same as the YAML template. I'd incorrectly assumed that Empty job meant that I'd have to edit the YAML myself.
Jonathan Twite gave me some great pointers but I didn't quite grasp what he was suggesting at the time.
The Solution
Anyway, the solution was to select either Empty job or scroll to the bottom and select Empty pipeline, why they're referred to by different names is a mystery.
After selecting the empty template, the next screen provides you with a default Agent job. Clicking the plus, you can add a variety of different tasks. This was part of my original mistake, I confused the tasks with the templates on the previous screen.
I added the .NET Core task.
I changed the Display name and the Command, as well as making sure that the Version was correct. Interestingly, the Command has a number of interesting options, three of which that I found useful are:
restore
build
test
So, rather than adding a specific Test task, you add the .NET Core task and configure it to do the test bit. This was a bit confusing for me, I didn't realise that the .NET Core task was capable of doing the testing as well.
In my case, I also started testing the ability to deploy NuGet packages, but that's a whole other can of worms.
I hope that this has helped, and wish you all good luck with your projects.
Kaine

I got the same exception when I tried to run my unit test project from azure devops:
##[error]Unable to find C:\Users\Viktor\agent_work\2\s\Source\API\VCC_uTests\obj\Release\netcoreapp3.1\VCC_uTests.deps.json. Make sure test project has a nuget reference of package "Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk".
The issue was that there was 2 VCC.uTests.dll in my $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory) folder,that vstest started based on my run unit tests pipe line step.
I could recognize it from the step log:
vstest.console.exe
"C:\Users\Viktor\agent_work\2\s\Source\API\VCC.uTests\bin\Release\netcoreapp3.1\VCC_uTests.dll"
"C:\Users\Viktor\agent_work\2\s\Source\API\VCC.uTests\obj\Release\netcoreapp3.1\VCC_uTests.dll"
Therefore, I had to modify my run test step search pattern:
**\bin$(BuildConfiguration)**VCC_uTests.dll
This solved my issue and the step ran successfully in my build pipeline.

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Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 12.0.30723.0
[Microsoft .NET Framework, version 4.0.30319.18444]
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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"D:\psTest.build" (test target) (1) ->
(Test target) ->
D:\psTest.build(5,5): error MSB3073: The command "powershell -Command "Write-Host "Hello, world!"" exited with
code -65536.
0 Warning(s)
1 Error(s)
Time Elapsed 00:00:01.10
I've also tried using using MSBuild Extension Pack, but I still end up getting the same error.
So, it feels like there is a major disconnect, which once that's out of the way, everything else should just fit.

Read .txt file value after a certain string (Matlab)

I'm trying to obtain the displacements of a node from an FEA .txt results file using matlab. I want to search for the node (e.g. 5151) and then read the displacements, the problem is the node is mentioned a couple of times before getting to the deformations.
The part of the results I'm interested in looks like this......
N O D E O U T P U T
THE FOLLOWING TABLE IS PRINTED FOR NODES BELONGING TO NODE SET ASSEMBLY_TIP_NODES
NODE FOOT- U1 U2 U3 UR1 UR2 UR3
NOTE
5101 2.6105E-03 -1.1943E-02 6.0023E-03 -8.6770E-02 -1.6432E-02 -1.1048E-02
5102 2.5224E-03 -1.1267E-02 5.6868E-03 -8.6763E-02 -1.6390E-02 -1.0943E-02
5103 2.4340E-03 -1.0589E-02 5.3709E-03 -8.6725E-02 -1.6269E-02 -1.0666E-02
5104 2.3455E-03 -9.9121E-03 5.0549E-03 -8.6542E-02 -1.6052E-02 -1.0267E-02
5105 2.2575E-03 -9.2374E-03 4.7396E-03 -8.6041E-02 -1.5708E-02 -9.7843E-03
5106 2.1710E-03 -8.5682E-03 4.4262E-03 -8.5111E-02 -1.5217E-02 -9.2317E-03
5107 2.0869E-03 -7.9085E-03 4.1164E-03 -8.3688E-02 -1.4585E-02 -8.6334E-03
5108 2.0063E-03 -7.2623E-03 3.8120E-03 -8.1750E-02 -1.3825E-02 -8.0049E-03
5109 1.9299E-03 -6.6336E-03 3.5150E-03 -7.9308E-02 -1.2958E-02 -7.3631E-03
5110 1.8586E-03 -6.0265E-03 3.2271E-03 -7.6400E-02 -1.2011E-02 -6.7206E-03
5111 1.7928E-03 -5.4442E-03 2.9500E-03 -7.3084E-02 -1.1010E-02 -6.0892E-03
5112 1.7329E-03 -4.8897E-03 2.6851E-03 -6.9435E-02 -9.9818E-03 -5.4777E-03
5113 1.6791E-03 -4.3652E-03 2.4334E-03 -6.5533E-02 -8.9528E-03 -4.8933E-03
etc, so what I want to do is search for a unique string ' N O D E O U T P U T' and then search for '5151' and import its displacements into an array.
Example output
nodeDisp = 1.6791E-03 -4.3652E-03 2.4334E-03 -6.5533E-02 -8.9528E-03 -4.8933E-03