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Reputation: 1399

What decides the output files in MSBuild?

From a CI-CD prospective, i am trying to find what are the folder & files (bin, obj, .dll etc) that are published to an IIS server while using the msbuild.exe with the publish option. I am not a .NET developer. What governs which files/folders to be pushed to the nodes while publishing after the build?

My application is a fairly simple one. The publish (or the deployment) is more or less a bunch of file copies from the CI server to the IIS nodes. The command used for the build and publish is 

bat '"C:\\MSBuild\\12.0\\Bin\\MSBuild.exe" /p:Configuration=DEV /t:Rebuild /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=DEV /m:4 src/myapp.sln'

I am trying to create & place the required output folder & files to an file repository after the msbuild process (before publishing). Then i will use these files to subsequent environments (with their web config files). Thus avoid the rebuilding for each environments.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 300

Answers (1)

chief7
chief7

Reputation: 14383

In this context MSBuild is actually using WebDeploy under the covers to deploy the application. Basically MSBuild compiles any C# OR VB files in the web application project and creates DLLs in the bin directory, then WebDeploy packages up any web server files (HTML/CSS/JS/etc) and the bin folder to the target.

The following post describes how WebDeploy works.

https://dotnetcatch.com/2016/02/25/the-anatomy-of-a-webdeploy-package/

Upvotes: 1

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