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Comment on Automating the build with MSBuild by Khanh

Khanh — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:56:27 +0000

Hi, thanks for the tutorial. When I ran

msbuild Build.xml /t:Compile

it said

The project file “BuildDemoSite.csproj”
was not found.
Done Building Project “C:\Documents and Settings\Do_K\My Documents\Visual Studi
o 2008\WebSites\BuildDemoSite\Build.xml” (Compile target(s)) — FAILED.

Build FAILED.

can you help me? I am a beginner. Thanks

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

The Earl — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:13:41 +0000

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

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

I lost days of my life looking for that one

Comment 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

Comment on Custom routing for ASP .NET MVC by Mike

Mike — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:59:50 +0000

There is another good way of routing customization that allows to pass Controller/Action/View names inside JSON data
http://vitana-group.com/article/microsoft-.net/route-handling

Comment on Automating the build with MSBuild by Shaw

Shaw — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:32:29 +0000

Thanks! This is great.

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

CSharpGuru — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:45:21 +0000

Thank you so much for your post. It saved me lots of headaches in a new job trying to set up automated builds in a pretty complex environment…kudos!

Comment on How to publish a web site with MSBuild 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.

Comment on How to publish a web site with MSBuild 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hi Dyadenka, yes you’re right the article is a bit out of date.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.

Comment on How to publish a web site with MSBuild 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.

Comment on A custom MSBuild task for merging config files by Kenny

Kenny — Tue, 11 May 2010 08:40:33 +0000

This works great, thanks alot!