diff --git a/tests/Aspire.EndToEnd.Tests/Aspire.EndToEnd.Tests.csproj b/tests/Aspire.EndToEnd.Tests/Aspire.EndToEnd.Tests.csproj
index db6f35e45c..0f9b54e669 100644
--- a/tests/Aspire.EndToEnd.Tests/Aspire.EndToEnd.Tests.csproj
+++ b/tests/Aspire.EndToEnd.Tests/Aspire.EndToEnd.Tests.csproj
@@ -15,8 +15,7 @@
     <IncludeTestPackages>false</IncludeTestPackages>
     <DeployOutsideOfRepoSupportFilesDir>testassets\testproject\</DeployOutsideOfRepoSupportFilesDir>
 
-    <!-- FIXME: update README.md -->
-    <_BuildForTestsRunningOutsideOfRepo Condition="'$(ContinuousIntegrationBuild)' == 'true'">true</_BuildForTestsRunningOutsideOfRepo>
+    <_BuildForTestsRunningOutsideOfRepo Condition="'$(TestsRunningOutsideOfRepo)' == 'true' or '$(ContinuousIntegrationBuild)' == 'true'">true</_BuildForTestsRunningOutsideOfRepo>
     <DeployOutsideOfRepoSupportFiles>$(_BuildForTestsRunningOutsideOfRepo)</DeployOutsideOfRepoSupportFiles>
     <DefineConstants Condition="'$(_BuildForTestsRunningOutsideOfRepo)' == 'true'">BUILD_FOR_TESTS_RUNNING_OUTSIDE_OF_REPO;$(DefineConstants)</DefineConstants>
 
diff --git a/tests/Aspire.EndToEnd.Tests/README.md b/tests/Aspire.EndToEnd.Tests/README.md
index 81957e2d96..95e894d81f 100644
--- a/tests/Aspire.EndToEnd.Tests/README.md
+++ b/tests/Aspire.EndToEnd.Tests/README.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 ### Using it from VS
 
-- For switching to `outside-of-repo` add `<TestsRunningOutsideOfRepo>true</TestsRunningOutsideOfRepo>` to `tests/Aspire.EndToEnd.Tests/Directory.Build.props` *before* any imports.
+- For switching to `outside-of-repo` set `<_BuildForTestsRunningOutsideOfRepo>true</_BuildForTestsRunningOutsideOfRepo>` in the project file.
     - tests cannot be run at this point as they will fail complaining about `artifacts/bin/dotnet-latest` being missing
     - Install the sdk+workload following the steps above
     - Run/debug the tests normally now, and they will be using the sdk