MSBuild target package not found

Question

I want to package my VS2010 web application project ready for deployment with msdeploy. On development machine I can do this using:

MSBuild.exe \"C:\\path\\t         


        

Answer 1

I know it's an old question, but I recently ran into the same issue and none of the answers helped. I was missing following file on my build server:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio
    \v11.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets

It is imported by:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio
    \v11.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets

Hope this helps someone like me :)