Visual Studio 2010 changes the .csproj file's reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework aggressively upon each edit of test projects. In particular, it changes the following: into dropping the conditional include. In order to reach a fixpoint when opening the project, we choose to include a file with the name Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework.dll in every reference assemblies folder. This file actually contains the testing suite used and ***IS NOT NECESSARILY*** the same as the one used for desktop CLR (which has that name). In particular, for Silverlight, this file is a rename of Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTesting.Silverlight.dll into Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework.dll