title: TeamCity Visual Studio Build Runner Requirement
body: <p>We're running TeamCity 9.0.3 and have had Visual Studio 2010, 2012 &amp; 2013 full install on our build server for years now.</p>
  
  <p>I know for a fact that we need certain Visual Studio targets in order to deploy our applications but I'm convinced we don't need to have a full Visual Studio installation in order to use the Visual Studio (sln) build runner but can't find any documentation to say whether or not we do need it. </p>
  
  <p>Can anyone show me documentation or verify from their own experience whether or not a full Visual Studio install is needed for this build runner to work?</p>
  
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  <p>Edit: I have seen this question:
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24483589/msbuild-requires-visual-studio-installed-on-build-server">Does MSbuild require Visual Studio to be installed on the build server?</a></p>
  
  <p>And mine is not the same question, it's a different topic. That question is asking whether or not Visual Studio is needed to as a prerequisite for the <strong>MSBuild build runner</strong>. My question pertains to the <strong>Visual Studio build runner</strong></p>