Deploying a .Net 4.5 website to an IIS 7.5 server

Question

We are using Teamcity to do continuous integration builds for our website and have just upgraded our website to .Net 4.5RC. The application builds and runs in IIS express o

Answer 1

I had a similar problem. I was building my application by calling MSBuild, and I found that when I tried to web-deploy the application I got that error. I fixed it by telling MSBuild to build with VS2012, by adding a commandline switch to the MSBuild command:

/P:VisualStudioVersion=11.0

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