---
title: "Macro - Workaround for VS 2005 unit testing build problem"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/12/10/macro-workaround-for-vs-2005-unit-testing-build-problem.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/12/10/macro-workaround-for-vs-2005-unit-testing-build-problem.html"
published: "2006-12-10T00:13:21"
updated: "2006-12-10T00:13:21"
tags: ["Agile", "Agile Related", "Team System", "Unit Testing"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Sondre has a nice workaround for a very annoying problem with VS 2005 Unit Tests (aka Team Test) - When you run unit tests, the \"Build\" action is not performed on the unit testing project by default, so you have to…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Macro - Workaround for VS 2005 unit testing build problem

By Roy Osherove December 10, 2006 In [Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile), [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related), [Team System](https://osherove.com/blog/category/team-system), [Unit Testing](https://osherove.com/blog/category/unit-testing)

**Historical article** · Originally published December 10, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

[Sondre has a nice workaround](http://fanms.com/blogs/sondre/archive/2006/12/06/Easier-TDD-with-Visual-Studio-2005-_2800_Macro_2900_.aspx) for a very annoying problem with VS 2005 Unit Tests (aka Team Test) - When you run unit tests, the "Build" action is not performed on the unit testing project by default, so you have to manually invoke the build - which you keep forgetting to do. Annoying! Sondre's workaround will run a build on the current project, then build every project with the word "Test" contained inside it after the build is done.

[Here's a direct link](http://fanms.com/files/folders/75/download.aspx) to the actual macro, but you will find detailed instructions on how to use it in [Sondre's post](http://fanms.com/blogs/sondre/archive/2006/12/06/Easier-TDD-with-Visual-Studio-2005-_2800_Macro_2900_.aspx).

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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