Comments on: How to publish a web site with MSBuild

By: The Earl

The Earl — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:07:36 +0000

You can emulate the publish web project menu command by calling the built in ‘PipelinePreDeployCopyAllFilesToOneFolder’ target.

MSBuild /T:Clean;Build;PipelinePreDeployCopyAllFilesToOneFolder
/p:_PackageTempDir=;Configuration=Release

I lost days of my life looking for that one

By: Dyadenka

Dyadenka — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:49:13 +0000

Sounds quite familiar, usually there is never enough time to catch up with all things . Just a small correction – seems like it’s not _CopyWebApplication target that is buggy but rather ResolveReferences one.

By: codingcockerel

codingcockerel — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:59:19 +0000

hi Dyadenka, yes you’re right the article is a bit out of date. One of these days I will get time to rewrite it using the latest tools, and all the useful comments people have provided over the last two years.

By: Dyadenka

Dyadenka — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:06:35 +0000

Hi, nice article, however you may want to update it with Ben’s comment about bug in _CopyWebApplication target. I was fighting that for a few hours until I looked under the article and stumbled upon Ben’s comment.

If you reference 3-rd party assembly (e.g. NHibernate.dll) which in turn depends on some other assembly (e.g. Castle.Core.dll, Iesi.Collections.dll) those third level dependency assemblies are not copied without workaround suggested in that Connect issue that Ben is referring to.

By: Ajeeth

Ajeeth — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:00:43 +0000

Output

By: Ajeeth

Ajeeth — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:11:18 +0000

I am not able to post the XML script. I can mail you if needed.

By: Ajeeth

Ajeeth — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:10:31 +0000

I have used the script for my application and I could see that the referenced dlls are getting duplicated into D:\ drive which is annoying. Can you please let me know where I am making the mistake Please find the xml file Output

By: codingcockerel

codingcockerel — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:11:51 +0000

Hi Luke,

Difficult to say, but most likely it is security and permissions related. Make sure that your account has write access to that share.

Ross

By: Luke Correa

Luke Correa — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:36:31 +0000

I get the following error…

C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets(45,3): error MSB3191: Unable to create directory “\\TestShare\Web\DEV\bin”. Could not find file ‘\\TestShare\Web\DEV\bin’.

Is this a rights issue?

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:59:07 +0000

If you’re having problems with referenced dll’s not being included, you might need to add the property BuildingProject=true to the MsBuild command.

This is a known bug, see http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=383199