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How to: Apply Test Settings from Microsoft Visual Studio

After you create or edit test settings, the details are saved to a file. You can then make one of your saved test settings active. Only one test settings can be active at a time. The active test settings is the setting that the test engine uses when it runs tests. Your choice of an active test settings is maintained from one user session to the next.

To set the active test settings

  1. On the Test menu, click Select Active Test Settings.

    A submenu lists all the test settings in your current solution or project.

  2. Click a test settings to make it active.

    This test settings will now be used when you run tests.

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Solution Items folder must exist in the Visual Studio solution
Make sure the solution folder named "Solution Items" exists and contains the test setting files.  If missing, add them by clicking Add... Existing Items...  Browse to the solution folder to add the default setting files: Local.testsettings and TraceAndTestImpact.testsettings.  You can also add your own testsettings files.
Apply Test Settings doesn't work..
Hi, I have created remote test settings and it works ok, but when I switch to local and run tests again - it still executing remotely, so the switch seems malfunction, or I miss something?