See answers inline below.
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From: spatemp spatemp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:07 PM
To: Bob Archer
Cc: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [NAnt-users] how to publish or output to a directory with
msbuildtask
ok. So, by default Output path is set to bin\ folder and the solution
is doing the build on say "Release" configuration. By setting output
path to some folder other then say bin\, will it copy all .aspx etc..
for web application.
[Bob Archer] No, it will only copy the binaries (DLLs) to that folder.
You would still need to copy the .aspx files yourself.
Basically I am looking for what publishing a site does from MSBUILD. I
want to then take all that content and zip it up so that I can do a
OnceClick deployment.
[Bob Archer] If you can do it from the command line in MSBUILD than you
should be able to do it with nant calling msbuild. I have never used
MSBUILD to do this though. See below on zipping it.
Also, what does web deployment project will give me and the benefits of
using it with Web Application type of projects(not web site).
[Bob Archer] It will copy the .aspx files to a deployment location. It
also lets you edit the web.config if say for example you want to change
from a dev connection string to a staging/test connection string. See
this blog post
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/11/06/429723.aspx . I have
to admit I have never done this, I just use a nant task to copy the
.aspx files to the deployment directory.
I can use xcopy but I want to avoid having to worry about excluding .cs
file and the others that I dont want on my web server.
[Bob Archer] Probably easier to just include the files you do want. Here
is the fileset I use though... (notice I exclude web.config because we
deal with that another way.)
<copy todir="${outputPath}">
<fileset
basedir="${assemblyInfoPath}">
<exclude
name="**/obj/**" />
<exclude name="**/My
Project/**" />
<exclude name="**/*.sln"
/>
<exclude name="**/*.cs"
/>
<exclude name="**/*.vb"
/>
<exclude
name="**/*.resx" />
<exclude
name="**/*.csproj*" />
<exclude
name="**/*.vbproj*" />
<exclude
name="**/*.resources" />
<exclude
name="**/*.plsk" />
<exclude
name="**/*.vsdisco" />
<exclude
name="web.config" />
<include name="**" />
</fileset>
</copy>
You could even use this file set right in a ZIP task so you don't need
to copy somewhere and then zip after a copy.
Hope this helps,
BOb
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Bob Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think the easiest way to do this is to set up a build configuration in
your solution that specifies where you want the output to go to.
Other than that you can just use the copy task after the msbuild task to
move your files.
You may also want to look at creating a web deployment project in your
solution which I think MSBuild will run.
As I said, several options here.
BOb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of spatemp
spatemp
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:43 AM
To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [NAnt-users] how to publish or output to a directory with
msbuildtask
I need to modify my nant scripts to publish or output web application to
a directory. So, currently we have following in the nant scrpit:
<
msbuild project="${Solution.Filename}" >
<
property name="Configuration" value="${Solution.BuildConfiguration}" />
<
property name="Platform" value="Any CPU" />
</
msbuild>
What I would like to do is create an output directory under each project
and let MSBUILD task also publish or output it ot that directory. Then
later on I can package that directory via zip and deploy it to various
servers. It would be nice if it could have built in
${ProjectDir}\output or something like that.
Any help would be appricated. Thanks.
by the way I tried following inside msbuild and it seems to publish
console projects etc.. but not Web Application type of project. It
gives me some error about non publishable project or something.
<
arg value="/t:publish" />
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