Using MSBuild.exe to “Publish” a ASP.NET MVC 4 project with the cmd line

Question

I\'m looking for a command to run against the MSBuild.exe that just takes a MVC 4 project and publishes it to a given directory.

For example,

Answer 1

Create a build.xml file thats look like below

Start Visual Studio command prompt

Run msbuild build.xml

  
    $(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\Build
    MyProject.csproj 
    MyProjectNameInVisualStudio
    $(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\CopyTo