MSTest V2 - Now and Ahead

This post announces that MSTest V2 has shed its pre-release tag (v1.1.11) and has crossed 100K downloads. It reiterates the key features of MSTest V2, including uniform app-platform support (.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, desktop, Store, UWP), uniform DataRow support, TestCategory attribute placement at class/assembly level, a single extensibility mechanism, and delivery as a NuGet package. It also confirms support in Visual Studio 2017 Preview 4+ for Create Unit Tests and Create IntelliTest wizards, and in-box unit test project templates. The post highlights that the team is working on making the MSTest framework open source, referencing the VSTest OSS announcement and VSTS features timeline.