MSBuild Script and VS2010 publish apply Web.config Transform

Question

So, I have VS 2010 installed and am in the process of modifying my MSBuild script for our TeamCity build integration. Everything is working great with one exception.

Answer 1

Another answer to this topic after I've been searching for days before I tackled this issue:

Your publish profile and configuration names should match.

In my case mine didn't. Manually publishing through the publishing profile gave me the result I wanted, because my configuration was set in the publish profile. MSBuild however tries to be intelligent and magically connects the publish profile and configuration based on name. (Adding the /p:Configuration in the command resulted in other strange errors about the outputpath of a referenced project).

Just to be exactly clear in what I mean:

MSBuild statement from command line

msbuild myproject.csproj -t:Clean -t:Rebuild /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile="Development"

WORKS

• Publish Profile name: Development
• Solution Configuration name: Development

DOES NOT WORK

• Publish Profile name: Development
• Solution Configuration name: Dev

Hope this helps!