Replicate VS2008 “Publish Web Site” from command line

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The following command duplicates the Publish Web Site dialog with default settings.

Command for Publish Web Site with Default Settings

aspnet_compiler -nologo -v / -p "C:\WebSite1" -u "C:\TargetPath"

Reference

1) See Community Content titled You want Publish a site but you have not Visual Studio then… at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/20yh9f1b(classic).aspx.

  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 > Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 > Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt
  • Microsoft .NET Framework SDK v2.0 > SDK Command Prompt

2) See “ASP.NET Compilation Tool (Aspnet_compiler.exe)” at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229863.aspx.

3) Following excerpt from Walkthrough: Deploying an ASP.NET Web Application Using XCOPY at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f735abw9.aspx

As an alternative to using the XCOPY
command-line tool, which is supported
by all versions of the .NET Framework,
you can use the new .NET Framework 2.0
tool located at
%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\version
2 or later\Aspnet_compiler.exe to
compile and deploy your Web
application. For more information, see ASP.NET Compilation Tool (Aspnet_compiler.exe).

4) Following excerpt from How to: Precompile ASP.NET Web Sites for Deployment at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms227976.aspx.

If your Web site is not an Internet
Information Services (IIS) application
and therefore has no entry in the IIS
metabase, used the following value for
the -v switch.

aspnet_compiler -p
physicalOrRelativePath -v /
targetPath

In this case, the
physicalOrRelativePath parameter
refers to the fully qualified
directory path in which the Web site
files are located, or a path relative
to the current directory. The period
(.) operator is allowed in the
physicalOrRelativePath parameter. The
-v switch specifies a root that the compiler will use to resolve
application-root references (for
example, with the tilde (~) operator).
When you specify the value of / for
the -v switch the compiler will
resolve the paths using the physical
path as the root.

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