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I set up a hosted agent in Azure to do a CI build but I'm getting the following warning during the Visual Studio build step before the build fails:
"Visual Studio version '15.0' not found. Looking for the latest version."
Looking at the documentation for hosted agents it looks like they're not deployed with Visual Studio 2017:
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-gb/docs/build/concepts/agents/hosted
Does anyone know when the hosted agents will be deployed with Visual Studio 2017 or when this will be likely?
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On the other hand, the bulk of the Azure DevOps code is built by 24-core server class machines running 4 self-hosted agents apiece.
Self-hosted agents :Self-hosted agents give you more control to install dependent software needed for your builds and deployments. Also, machine-level caches and configuration persist from run to run, which can boost speed. You can install the agent on Linux, macOS, Windows machines or Docker container.
Microsoft-hosted agents are only available with Azure DevOps Services, which is hosted in the cloud. You cannot use Microsoft-hosted agents or the Azure Pipelines agent pool with on-premises TFS or Azure DevOps Server. With these on-premises versions, you must use self-hosted agents.
When selecting your agent queue, you can now select the "Hosted VS2017".
You may need to adapt your build pipeline. For instance I had to remove the Nuget Restore step I had and just ticked the "restore nuget package" in the build step. The standard Restore Nuget step was trying to use MsBuild 14 which is not available on VS2017 agents.
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