diff --git a/src/Build/Evaluation/Evaluator.cs b/src/Build/Evaluation/Evaluator.cs
index 57e7e6da42d..b38d2ee912d 100644
--- a/src/Build/Evaluation/Evaluator.cs
+++ b/src/Build/Evaluation/Evaluator.cs
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ private Evaluator(
             _sdkResolverService = sdkResolverService;
             _submissionId = submissionId;
             _evaluationProfiler = new EvaluationProfiler(profileEvaluation);
-            _isRunningInVisualStudio = BuildEnvironmentHelper.Instance.RunningInVisualStudio;
+            _isRunningInVisualStudio = String.Equals("true", _data.GlobalPropertiesDictionary.GetProperty("BuildingInsideVisualStudio")?.EvaluatedValue, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
 
             // In 15.9 we added support for the global property "NuGetInteractive" to allow SDK resolvers to be interactive.
             // In 16.0 we added the /interactive command-line argument so the line below keeps back-compat