How to include an 'Extension or Update' as a dependency in a TFS build?

Question

I have a project I wish to build via TFS2013 which is failing due to a dependency on SQLite on the build agent, specially:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Common.targets (1728): Could not find SDK "SQLite.WinRT, Version=3.8.4.3".

If this was a nuget package, fine, I could include the packages folder, use automated package restore etc, but in this case, the SQLite dependency is installed via the 'Extensions & Updates' section in Visual Studio.

My question is this, how can I provide such a dependency to TFS to allow it to find the reference?

Can I simply include the vsix file in a dependencies folder? Or do I really need to install VS and install the extension via that? I'd really hope to avoid the second option here.

Has anyone else hit this problem before?

Answer 1

I would think Install Visual Studio and Visual studio extension is what you need to do.

If you think about it, extensions form part of the development environment. You don't change your dev tools / development environments as part of your build process.