Running a test using Shims on a Visual Studio 2013 Test Agent

Question

I have found various iterations of this question across a number of websites, however so far I have not found anything that provides a full answer that worked. I have just set up a number of Visual Studio Test Agents that all appear to be behaving and running most of the unit tests we are planning on initially running on them. However when I came to checking one of the unit tests it is failing on the line:
using (ShimsContext.Create()),

With the stack trace:
Result Message:
Microsoft.QualityTools.Testing.Fakes.UnitTestIsolation.UnitTestIsolationException: Failed to resolve profiler path from COR_PROFILER_PATH and COR_PROFILER environment variables.
Having read some other posts I installed Visual Studio 2013 on the test agent and confirmed it would run the test locally. I then set COR_PROFILER_PATH to the profiler that was being used on my machine which was installed at: “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\IntelliTrace\12.0.0\Microsoft.IntelliTrace.Profiler.12.0.0.dll”. It then failed in the same place with the trace:
Test method threw exception:
Microsoft.QualityTools.Testing.Fakes.UnitTestIsolation.UnitTestIsolationException: Failed to get profiler module handle 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\IntelliTrace\12.0.0\Microsoft.IntelliTrace.Profiler.12.0.0.dll'. The specified module could not be found ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The specified module could not be found

The suggestion is the profiler has been loaded under a separate process and can't be used. Has anyone had any success with this or similar set ups? At a fundamental level can Visual Studio Test Agents run tests with Fakes?
Thanks

Answer 1

I know this is a bit old, so the OP probably got his answer, but for anyone else, I opened a ticket with Microsoft on this issue, and the answer we came to after an hour and a half of looking at my setup for this problem:

Microsoft.QualityTools.Testing.Fakes.UnitTestIsolation.UnitTestIsolationException: Failed to resolve profiler path from COR_PROFILER_PATH and COR_PROFILER environment variables.

, was that I was using mstest.exe and I should have been using vstest.console.exe. In my case it was because I have Fakes test in my code now.

I'm using Visual Studio 2013 update 4.