Visual studio for mac mstests project wont load

Visual Studio for Mac MSTests project wont load

I opened a Xamarin Forms project I created on a windows pc with visual studio for Mac.

Besides the UWP version of the app not being able to load the MS Tests unit tests could not be loaded either. Since I really need the unit tests to run I edited the project so it would work.

This is the original

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

 <Project ToolsVersion="15.0" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">

 <Import Project="..\packages\MSTest.TestAdapter.1.2.0\build\net45\MSTest.TestAdapter.props" Condition="Exists('..\packages\MSTest.TestAdapter.1.2.0\build\net45\MSTest.TestAdapter.props')" />

 <PropertyGroup>

 <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>

 <Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">AnyCPU</Platform>

 <ProjectGuid>{11CF56D3-607A-4251-B491-E88D59114CFE}</ProjectGuid>

 <OutputType>Library</OutputType>

 <AppDesignerFolder>Properties</AppDesignerFolder>

 <RootNamespace>App4.test</RootNamespace>

 <AssemblyName>App4.test</AssemblyName>

 <TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.6.1</TargetFrameworkVersion>

 <FileAlignment>512</FileAlignment>

 <ProjectTypeGuids>{3AC096D0-A1C2-E12C-1390-A8335801FDAB};{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}</ProjectTypeGuids>

 <VisualStudioVersion Condition="'$(VisualStudioVersion)' == ''">15.0</VisualStudioVersion>

 <VSToolsPath Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' == ''">$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)</VSToolsPath>

 <ReferencePath>$(ProgramFiles)\Common Files\microsoft shared\VSTT\$(VisualStudioVersion)\UITestExtensionPackages</ReferencePath>

 <IsCodedUITest>False</IsCodedUITest>

<TestProjectType>UnitTest</TestProjectType>

<NuGetPackageImportStamp>

</NuGetPackageImportStamp>

</PropertyGroup>

<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">

<DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>

<DebugType>full</DebugType>

<Optimize>false</Optimize>

<OutputPath>bin\Debug\</OutputPath>

<DefineConstants>DEBUG;TRACE</DefineConstants>

<ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>

<WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>

</PropertyGroup>

<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">

<DebugType>pdbonly</DebugType>

<Optimize>true</Optimize>

<OutputPath>bin\Release\</OutputPath>

<DefineConstants>TRACE</DefineConstants>

<ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>

<WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>

</PropertyGroup>

<ItemGroup>

<Reference Include="Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.TestFramework, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a, processorArchitecture=MSIL">

<HintPath>..\packages\MSTest.TestFramework.1.2.0\lib\net45\Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.TestFramework.dll</HintPath>

</Reference>

<Reference Include="Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.TestFramework.Extensions, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a, processorArchitecture=MSIL">

<HintPath>..\packages\MSTest.TestFramework.1.2.0\lib\net45\Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.TestFramework.Extensions.dll</HintPath>

</Reference>

<Reference Include="System" />

<Reference Include="System.Core" />

</ItemGroup>

<ItemGroup>

<Compile Include="UnitTest1.cs" />

<Compile Include="Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs" />

</ItemGroup>

<ItemGroup>

<None Include="packages.config" />

</ItemGroup>

<Import Project="$(VSToolsPath)\TeamTest\Microsoft.TestTools.targets" Condition="Exists('$(VSToolsPath)\TeamTest\Microsoft.TestTools.targets')" />

<Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />

<Target Name="EnsureNuGetPackageBuildImports" BeforeTargets="PrepareForBuild">

<PropertyGroup>

<ErrorText>This project references NuGet package(s) that are missing on this computer. Use NuGet Package Restore to download them.  For more information, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=322105. The missing file is {0}.</ErrorText>

</PropertyGroup>

<Error Condition="!Exists('..\packages\MSTest.TestAdapter.1.2.0\build\net45\MSTest.TestAdapter.props')" Text="$([System.String]::Format('$(ErrorText)', '..\packages\MSTest.TestAdapter.1.2.0\build\net45\MSTest.TestAdapter.props'))" />

<Error Condition="!Exists('..\packages\MSTest.TestAdapter.1.2.0\build\net45\MSTest.TestAdapter.targets')" Text="$([System.String]::Format('$(ErrorText)', '..\packages\MSTest.TestAdapter.1.2.0\build\net45\MSTest.TestAdapter.targets'))" />

</Target>

<Import Project="..\packages\MSTest.TestAdapter.1.2.0\build\net45\MSTest.TestAdapter.targets" Condition="Exists('..\packages\MSTest.TestAdapter.1.2.0\build\net45\MSTest.TestAdapter.targets')" />

</Project>

I changed the project to a dot net core unit test project by editing the project file. Here is what I changed it to. The updated test project uses MS Test V2

  <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

    <PropertyGroup>
        <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>

    <IsPackable>false</IsPackable>
   </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk" Version="15.3.0-preview-20170628-02" />
     <PackageReference Include="MSTest.TestAdapter" Version="1.1.18" />
     <PackageReference Include="MSTest.TestFramework" Version="1.1.18" />
  </ItemGroup>

</Project>