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DavidS
DavidS

Reputation: 2283

Copying files using MSBuild in TeamCity

I've got the following xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <Project ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTargets="DeployPrototype" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
      <PropertyGroup>
        <dotCover>..\..\..\plugins\dotCover\bin\dotCover.exe</dotCover>
      </PropertyGroup>
      <ItemGroup>
        <SourceFiles Include="..\Prototype\Site\Site\Bin\TestServer\Default.html;..\Prototype\Site\Site\Bin\TestServer\Site.xap"/>
        <DestinationFolder Include="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ProjectName\Prototype"/>
      </ItemGroup>

      <Target Name="Build">
          <MSBuild Projects="../ProjectName.Web.sln" Properties="Configuration=testserver" />
          <Message Text="Building ProjectName solution" Importance="high" />
      </Target>

      <Target Name="TeamCity" DependsOnTargets="Build">
        <Message Text="Before executing MSpec command" Importance="low" />
        <Exec Command="..\packages\Machine.Specifications.0.4.10.0\tools\mspec-clr4.exe ..\Hosts\ProjectName.Hosts.Web.Specs\bin\ProjectName.Hosts.Web.Specs.dll --teamcity" />
        <Message Text="Ran MSpec" Importance="low" />
        <Exec Command="$(dotCover) c TestServerBuildAndRunTestsOnly_DotCover.xml" />
        <Message Text="##teamcity[importData type='dotNetCoverage' tool='dotcover' path='build\coverage.xml']" Importance="high" />
      </Target>

      <Target Name="DeployPrototype" DependsOnTargets="TeamCity">
        <Message Text="Before executing copy, source files are: @(MySourceFiles) and destination folder is: @(DestinationFolder)" Importance="low" />
            <Copy
              SourceFiles="@(MySourceFiles)"
              DestinationFolder="@(DestinationFolder)"
      />
        <Message Text="Atter executing copy" Importance="low" />
      </Target>
    </Project>

Everything in this script works apart from the copying of the files. The messages I've put put in the copying section don't appear in the full log in TeamCity. In the configuration settings of the latter, I've put "DeployPrototype" as my target.

Why is the copying operation not happening?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2710

Answers (1)

Ruben Bartelink
Ruben Bartelink

Reputation: 61795

For a given problem involving MSBuild not working under TeamCity, the answer almost always involves adding /v:d (Every step carried out and information about skipped steps) or /v:diag (Detailed plus dumps of ItemGroups etc. for diagnostic purposes) to the MSBuild args and the TeamCity-managed build output will have the answer.

Upvotes: 6

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