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Roman Podlinov
Roman Podlinov

Reputation: 24944

MSBuild: How to build web deploy package for Web Deployment Projects (VS2010)?

I migrated a Web Site project (with Web Deployment project) from VS2008 to VS2010. Now I can make "Build Deployment Package" for Web Deployment Project in VS2010 and it works great! But I can't find a way how to do the same via MSBuild.

Upvotes: 11

Views: 18369

Answers (2)

Zach Bonham
Zach Bonham

Reputation: 6817

Try 

MSBuild YourProject.csproj /T:Package

That should generate a deployment package. This page, How to: Use MSBuild to Create a Web Package might give a bit more information, but not much.

Upvotes: 1

Roman Podlinov
Roman Podlinov

Reputation: 24944

I answer on my one question. So after a lot of googling and 2 days of investigation it finally works.

Brief how to:

  1. I created Configuration = QA (based on Debug configuration) for Solution via Configuration Manager.

  2. Important: I removed 'Platform' parameter for QA Configuration. I couldn't build package until I did it. (My dev computer is Win7-x64, and I'm not not sure would be this step necessary for x86. But my build server Win2008-x86 forks fine with this modification.) This is QA Configuration section from my .wdproj 

    <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'QA' ">
<DebugSymbols>True</DebugSymbols>
<OutputPath>QA\</OutputPath>
<EnableUpdateable>true</EnableUpdateable>
<UseMerge>true</UseMerge>
<SingleAssemblyName>
</SingleAssemblyName>
<UseWebConfigReplacement>false</UseWebConfigReplacement>
<DeleteAppDataFolder>true</DeleteAppDataFolder>
<TargetFrameworkVersion>v3.5</TargetFrameworkVersion>
<ExcludeApp_Data>true</ExcludeApp_Data>
</PropertyGroup>

  3. I build and package .wbproj file with the following command:

    msbuild WebSite.Deploy.wdproj /t:Build;Package /p:Configuration=QA

For information: If you need you can use standard Web Publishing parameters (e.g. ExcludeApp_Data, DeployIisAppPath etc.) in the QA configuration section.

Upvotes: 11

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