MSBuild [web project.csproj] /T:Clean;Build;PipelinePreDeployCopyAllFilesToOneFolder
/p:_PackageTempDir=[publish folder];Configuration=Release

I lost days of my life looking for that one

It might be worth trying some of the other solutions suggested in the comments, particularly those from KJ.

Please update solution.

I figured it out.

I stopped trying to use the code in my original post because I just couldn’t get it to work, and imported this library instead:

Import Project=(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\SDCTasks\Microsoft.Sdc.Common.tasks

Here’s the code to create and delete web sites in IIS. Please note that this works remotely, meaning I can create and delete web sites on a machine that’s not the TFSBuild machine (providing file system permissions is not an issue of course):

PropertyGroup
— Set properties for web site and app pool operations –
WebSiteName MATX.Healthcare.AdminService /WebSiteName
ServerName AUSTX010PROD /ServerName
PortNumber 65501 /PortNumber
IISNetworkDir D:\Healthcare\AdminService /IISNetworkDir
/PropertyGroup

Target Name=”DeleteWebSiteInIIS”
Message Text=”****** DeleteWebSiteInIIS”

Web.WebSite.DeleteWebsite
MachineName=”(ServerName)
Description=”(WebSiteName)
/Target

Target Name=”CreateWebSiteInIIS”
Message Text=”******CreateWebSiteInIIS”

Web.WebSite.Create
Description=”(WebSiteName)”
Path=”(IISNetworkDir)”
MachineName=”(ServerName)”
Port=”(PortNumber)”
AppPoolID=”Services”
DefaultDocs=”AdminService.svc;Default.aspx;Default.html;Default.asp;index.htm”
/Target

I found and used the info from this web site and it works perfectly:

http://grounding.co.za/blogs/romiko/archive/2008/09/20/msbuild-creating-professional-deployment-scripts-part-1.aspx

I stopped trying to use the code in my original post because I just couldn’t get it to work, and imported this library instead:

Here’s the code to create and delete web sites in IIS. Please note that this works remotely, meaning I can create and delete web sites on a machine that’s not the TFSBuild machine (providing file system permissions is not an issue of course):

MATX.Healthcare.AdminService
AUSTX010PROD
65501
D:\Healthcare\AdminService

<Message Text********** CreateWebSiteInIIS **********

I found and used the info from this web site and it works perfectly:

http://grounding.co.za/blogs/romiko/archive/2008/09/20/msbuild-creating-professional-deployment-scripts-part-1.aspx

Try posting your question on StackOverflow.com, you’re likely to get a quick response there.

Apologies but I haven’t got the time to look at this in detail right now.

Ross

I’m a bit new to working with MSBuild, and I’m having a hard time getting the WebDirectoryDelete and WebDirectoryCreate to work.

SYSTEM: TFS 2008 SP1 on Windows 2003 Server. The build machine and TFS server are on the same machine.

What I want my build script to do is on the target server (not the build/tfs machine), delete the web site and it’s physical directory and then re-create both, then deploy my code.

I cannot get the WebDirectoryDelete to work. So what I did was edited the build script to try to delete a web site on the TFS Build machine (so everything is local) but that didn’t work either.

Here’s the code I’m using to try to delete a web site in IIS on my the local TFS build machine:

ConfigurationService-Test
65504

When I run this code I get:
Task “WebDirectoryDelete”
Deleting virtual directory ‘ConfigurationService-Test’ on ‘localhost:65504′.
D:\TFSBuilds\Healthcare\testing\BuildType\TFSBuild.proj(30,9): error : The system cannot find the path specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070003)

I have tried numerous iterations on the above code, specifying the user ID and password, tried specifying “localhost”, \\MachineName – etc. I just can’t seem to delete the web site in IIS via my build script.

Could someone please point out what I’m doing wrong? I’m very eager to get this to work, and it seems that others have had success with it.

Thank you.