VSTestLogger msbuild property is not respected

[olstakh]

Silly question (for the life of me, couldn't find definitive answer reading through other issues).

Setting <VSTestLogger> property in csproj file only has effect with dotnet test, not by running tests in visual studio.
Placing corresponding LoggerRunSettings into .runsettings file applies to both cases.

Is there a way to supply a logger via some msbuild property, that is respected when running tests in VS?
Sometimes when test fails while running in VS - i see Open log file link that takes me to the failure - looking for this ability to provide custom path/logger

Using xunit 2.9.0 and xunit.runner.visualstudio 3.0.1.

[filzrev]

How about using dedicated .runsetting for Visual Studio environment by using BuildingInsideVisualStudio MSBuild property?

  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(BuildingInsideVisualStudio)' == 'true'">
    <RunSettingsFilePath>$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\VisualStudio.runsettings</RunSettingsFilePath>
  </PropertyGroup>

Note:
When using xUnit.v3 package.
It need to specify following settings to disable MTP and use VSTest.
<DisableTestingPlatformServerCapability>true</DisableTestingPlatformServerCapability>

[bradwilson]

We don't do anything with this setting (I've never even heard of it), so my guess is this is probably a question for the VSTest team rather than us.

[olstakh]

Good idea, @filzrev , i'll give it a go.
@bradwilson , got it. so is it fair to say there's no way to customize logger for visualstudio.xunit (apart from runsettings)?

P. S. VSTestLogger seems to fairly used (according to my github code search), and since this package is a vstest adapter for xunit, i was assuming it'll be supported. Clearly the wrong assumption, thanks for clarifying

[bradwilson]

I don't believe it has ever been our responsibility to read and respect that value. The logger in VSTest has nothing to do with us.