How to execute a PowerShell script only before a web deploy Publish task in VS 2012?

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It depends on how you define before but below is one technique.

When you create a publish profile with VS2012 it will create you a .pubxml file in the Properties\PublishProfiles folder (My Project\PublishProfiles for VB). These are MSBuild files and you can edit them to customize the publish process. In your case you can inject a target into the publish process, before the publish actually occurs. You can do that by extending the PipelineDependsOn property as below.

<PropertyGroup>
  <PipelineDependsOn>
    CustomBeforePublish;
    $(PipelineDependsOn);
  </PipelineDependsOn>
</PropertyGroup>

<Target Name="CustomBeforePublish">
  <Message Text="********************************** CustomBeforePublish ***********************************" Importance="high"/>
</Target>

FYI regarding the customization of .wpp.targets, that was the only technique which we had for VS2010. My recommendation here is as follows; customize the .pubxml file for most cases and to only create a .wpp.targets file if you want to customize every publish of the given project.

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