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Aaron
Aaron

Reputation: 2351

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 cannot deploy a Web Project via WebDeploy v2.0+

I am receiving the following error when attempting to publish a Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 project ...

Error 1 The "VSMSDeploy" task failed unexpectedly.
System.ArgumentException: Version string portion was too short or too long.
   at System.Version.VersionResult
          .SetFailure(ParseFailureKind failure, String argument)
   at System.Version.TryParseVersion(String version, VersionResult& result)
   at System.Version.Parse(String input)
   at System.Version..ctor(String version)
   at Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.Common.Utility.CheckMSDeploymentVersion()
   at Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.Common.Utility.get_IsMSDeployInstalled()
   at Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.Common.Utility
          .CheckMSDeploymentVersion(Task task)
   at Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.VSMSDeploy.Execute()
   at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd
          .ITaskExecutionHost.Execute()
   at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.ExecuteInstantiatedTask(
          ITaskExecutionHost taskExecutionHost, 
          TaskLoggingContext taskLoggingContext, 
          TaskHost taskHost, ItemBucket bucket, 
          TaskExecutionMode howToExecuteTask, Boolean& taskResult)  
    C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\LightSwitch\v1.0\
          Microsoft.LightSwitch.targets 96410Application3

I have tried re-installing Web Deploy (both 2.0, via the website, and 2.1, via the WebPI) but no joy.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1368

Answers (1)

Aaron
Aaron

Reputation: 2351

It turns out Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 requires Web Deploy 1.1 which was not installed by its installer (2.0 had previously been installed by WebMatrix and I also tried 2.1 via the WebPI). My problem was solved after I downloaded it from the Microsoft Download Center:

This did make me wonder why LightSwitch doesn't support WebDeploy 2.0/2.1, and also installs SQL Server Express 2008 rather than 2008 R2, but that is a question for another time

Upvotes: 5

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