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Stephen Lacy
Stephen Lacy

Reputation:

Web Deployment Projects, Web Application Projects and Team Build 2008

I've switched from a Website Project to a WAP (Web Application project).

The WDP (Web Deployment Project) is used to set and potentially in the future make other web.config changes.

However I notice that the team build is building everything twice, once on behalf of the solution file and then again because of the WDP. Any idea how I can stop this from happening?

Or is there a way to replace out the web deployment project altogether?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 514

Answers (1)

Jim Lamb
Jim Lamb

Reputation: 25805

Yes and yes.

You can stop TFS Build from building everything twice by following these steps:

  1. Open the configuration manager (open your solution and select Configuration Manager from the top-level Build menu).
  2. Expand the drop down list for Active solution configuration and select New.
  3. Enter a name for your new solution configuration and select an existing configuration to copy settings from and click OK.
  4. In the Configuration Manager, uncheck the checkboxes in the Build column for all of the projects except the deployment project and click Close.
  5. Edit your TFSBuild.proj file's ConfigurationToBuild ItemGroup by adding your new configuration: Foo Any CPU
  6. Where Foo is the name of the new configuration you just defined.

For Visual Studio 2010, the ASP.NET team has partnered with the IIS team to deliver an integrated web application packaging and deployment solution built on the [Web Deployment Tool][1]. It more or less replaces web deployment projects and you can use it with VS/TFS 2008 via its [command line interface][2]. I have a blog post covering the basic scenario here:

Building a Simple Web Site with VSTS/TFS 2008.

Upvotes: 2

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