MSBuild 2010 - how to publish web app to a specific location (nant)?

Question

I\'m trying to get MSBuild 2010 to publish a web app to a specific location. I can get it to publish the deployment package to a particular path, but the deployment package

Answer 1

If you are using a VS2010 web application (as opposed to a web site project), consider setting up the Package/Publish Web settings in your project and building the 'Project' target in your nant script.

Lots of juicy msdeploy goodness and background here: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WebDeploymentMadeAwesomeIfYoureUsingXCopyYoureDoingItWrong.aspx

In my nant scripts, I run the following msbuild commands:

    
        
            
            
            
            
        
    

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My basename nant variable gives the name of both the VS solution file (.sln) and the project file (.csproj) for the web application. I happen to prefer the zip-file deployment as shown in my project settings:

There is one additional quirk. If you install MSDeploy version 2.0 on the target machine, the .deploy.cmd file must be edited to change the MSDeploy version number as follows:

Change

  for /F "usebackq tokens=2*" %%i  in (`reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\IIS Extensions\MSDeploy\1" /v InstallPath`) do (

To

  for /F "usebackq tokens=2*" %%i  in (`reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\IIS Extensions\MSDeploy\2" /v InstallPath`) do (