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Comment on How to publish a web site with MSBuild by MSBuild by jayempee - Pearltrees

MSBuild by jayempee - Pearltrees — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:06:44 +0000

[...] How to publish a web site with MSBuild – Coding Cockerel In part two of my MSBuild tutorial I needed to find a way to call Visual Studio’s Publish Web Site feature from MSBuild. Much trawling of the interweb failed to find anything of use, so in the end I had to produce my own target which copied the relevant files into the output folder. The problem with this approach is that it only works for files of type dll, aspx or config. [...]

Comment on How to publish a web site with MSBuild by Todd W. Powers

Todd W. Powers — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:29:09 +0000

I was struggling with the same error (MSB4057: The target “_CopyWebApplication” does not exist in the project.

Yes. I was using a Web Application Project (not a web site).

I was baffled because I had one project that worked, and one that did not. So I sat down with ExamDiffPro and went to work comparing the project files. What I found was the section of build target includes at the bottom of the project files were different.

One project (that was working) was created using a newer version of Visual Studio. The other one (that was NOT working) was created years ago and has been upgraded over the years, to the current version I am working with. The upgraded project, evidently didn’t get upgraded with the new build targets as newer versions of Visual Studio became available.

At the bottom of the project file which was working, I found the following:

The second import line was NOT in the project which was causing problems.

I simply copied the import from the working file, and pasted it in the relative location in the non-working file, and viola!

While this is not a direct solution to the initial problem defined in this thread, I hope this helps some of the other people that stumbled across this thread, looking for similar issues, only with actual Web Application Projects.

Comment on Automating the build with MSBuild (part three) by Zonghe

Zonghe — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:22:32 +0000

Superb series for a MSBuild crash course. Thanks a million~!

Comment on Automating the build with MSBuild (part three) by Sunny

Sunny — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:19:30 +0000

Very nice article. I am quite new to msbuild scripts but u made it quite simple.

Comment on Automating the build with MSBuild by codingcockerel

codingcockerel — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:34:50 +0000

Andy, I’m not familiar with LaTeX but if you just want to call programs from the command line then MSBuild can do that with the Exec command. In theory what you want to do should be achievable.

Comment on Automating the build with MSBuild by Andy

Andy — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:39:38 +0000

Is it possible to use Visual Studio to be LaTeX editor and use MSBuild to invoke batch file compiling the LaTeX input file, converting *.dvi to *.ps and finally *.ps to *.pdf?

Thank you in advance. Your article sounds very interesting. It might be what I am looking for.

Comment on How to publish a web site with MSBuild by Peter de Witte

Peter de Witte — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:12:47 +0000

Another approach can be: Ad a Web Deployment Project to your solution. Building it will do a pretty good job publishing your webapp.

Comment on Add logging to your application using log4net (part two) by Republic Polytechnic

Republic Polytechnic — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 01:28:44 +0000

You’ve wrote a very excellent blog post.
If it’s ok with you, I would like to ask permission to use your article as it relates to my problem. I will be glad to negotiate to pay you or hire you for this.

With Regards from
Republic Polytechnic

Comment on How to publish a web site with MSBuild by Deployment web site Zip with MsBuild and TeamCity | Climens Codelog

Deployment web site Zip with MsBuild and TeamCity | Climens Codelog — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:09:37 +0000

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Comment on Automating the build with MSBuild (part three) by Rocky

Rocky — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:09:25 +0000

This is an awesome aricle, which could give me an idea on what a build script is..
I am literally new to these build scripts, can you give me an idea on how a script should be inorder to checkout the project from subversion and build it.
and what if we should build the project on a remote server..
we use .net and MSBuild.
It would be of great help if you could assist me..

ThankYou
Rocky