IIS7 + related answer …. Ok – here’s what I ended up doing. More or less, following the post by Simon Weaver in this thread/question. But when it comes to the MSBuild settings .. most people here are using following setting: /p:MSDeployPublishMethod=RemoteAgent which is NOT RIGHT for IIS7. Using this setting means TFS tries to … Read more
Edit: It turns out you are right: the skip directive is ignored when executed from Visual Studio. Fortunately, there’s a workaround. What you want is this: <!– Skip the deletion of any file within the ErrorLog directory –> <MsDeploySkipRules Include=”SkipErrorLogFolder1″> <SkipAction>Delete</SkipAction> <ObjectName>filePath</ObjectName> <AbsolutePath>ErrorLog</AbsolutePath> </MsDeploySkipRules> In addition, you need to prevent VS from using the UI-task … Read more
Unfortunately sharing of the Publish Profile is not supported or implemented in MSBuild. The logic to publish from the profile is contained in VS itself. Fortunately the profile doesn’t contain much information so there are ways to achieve what you are looking for. Our targets do not specifically support the exact same steps as followed … Read more
I just got this working without installing VS2010 by following these steps on the build server: If .NET Framework 4 isn’t installed, install it Install the Web Deployment tool from http://www.iis.net/download/webdeploy From the C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0 folder on your dev machine copy the “Web” and “Web Applications” folders to the equivalent directory on your build server. … Read more
I got it mostly working without a custom msbuild script. Here are the relevant TeamCity build configuration settings: Artifact paths: %system.teamcity.build.workingDir%\MyProject\obj\Debug\Package\PackageTmp Type of runner: MSBuild (Runner for MSBuild files) Build file path: MyProject\MyProject.csproj Working directory: same as checkout directory MSBuild version: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 MSBuild ToolsVersion: 4.0 Run platform: x86 Targets: Package Command line … Read more
Great question. I just posted a very detailed blog entry about this at Web Deployment Tool (MSDeploy) : Build Package including extra files or excluding specific files. Here is the synopsis. After including files, I show how to exclude files as well. Including Extra Files Including extra files into the package is a bit harder … Read more