Minimum software requirements to build VS2013 ASP.NET MVC Web Application in TeamCity 8.1

Question

I'm setting up TeamCity 8.1 in an empty Windows 7 machine. What are the minimal software requirements in order to build a ASP.NET MVC Web Application created in Visual Studio 2013?

I will be using both Github and Subversion as source version control system (VCS).

On my first try there was no problems connecting to the VCS's. But I immediately started to get build errors, starting with

Unmet requirements: MSBuildTools12.0_x86_Path exists.

This is not so much a question since I'm answering it myself. I wanted to list the error messages I got in the process and how I solved them. I'm hoping this will help someone else in the same situation.

Answer 1

After installing TeamCity 8.1 this is the errors I encountered trying to build an ASP.NET MVC Web Application and how I solved them:

The first error

Unmet requirements: MSBuildTools12.0_x86_Path exists

• This was solved with Microsoft Build Tools 2013 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40760

• You can read more about it here Team city unmet requirement: MSBuildTools12.0_x86_Path exists

The second error

error MSB4019: 
The imported project 
"C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" was not found.

• You can find a description of the problem here MSBuild in TeamCity of Visual Studio 2012 solution

  • The right folders for VS2013 are
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\Web
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\WebApplications

The third error

Occurs if you don't copy the package folder to your VCS. Then you need to restore the nuget packages before you build.

error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Optimization' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Web'

• You can read more about it here http://blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2013/08/nuget-package-restore-with-teamcity/

Fourth problem Happens if you have a test project with references to dll's that are not in the TeamCity server.

error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'VisualStudio' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft'

• You can read more about it here Unit test project not building from build server

• I installed Agents for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40750 and it solved some problems