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'MSTest.exe' returned '128' on TFS 2010 Build server

Last week our build failed sometimes even when all conditions were met(code compiled, all tests were running,…). In the build log I found following errorline:

TFB210610: 'MSTest.exe' returned an unexpected exit code. Expected '0'; actual '128'.

Running MSTest manually on the build server using the same parameters gave no errors. On MSConnect I found out that I was not the only one encountering this issue. It should have been resolved in the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate. I’ll check it out next week.