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    copied!<p>I am trying to replicate the exact functionality of this dialogue in Visual Studio 2008 in a build script: <a href="http://i41.tinypic.com/1osl1f.png" rel="noreferrer">alt text http://i41.tinypic.com/1osl1f.png</a></p> <p>This is an ASP.NET web <em>site</em>, not a web <em>application</em>.</p> <p>I have Googled around this and turned up quite a bit of stuff involving MSBuild, but this all seems to concern solutions laid out as ASP.NET Web Applications:</p> <p><a href="http://www.driebier.net/post/Using-MSBuild-to-deploy-visual-studio-2005-web-applications.aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://www.driebier.net/post/Using-MSBuild-to-deploy-visual-studio-2005-web-applications.aspx</a> <a href="http://blog.donnfelker.com/post/TFS-Build-Not-Publishing-Web-Applications.aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://blog.donnfelker.com/post/TFS-Build-Not-Publishing-Web-Applications.aspx</a></p> <p><a href="http://codingcockerel.co.uk/2008/05/18/how-to-publish-a-web-site-with-msbuild/" rel="noreferrer">This article</a> seems to be relevant to ASP.NET Web Sites, but I find that I'm getting an error when trying to build using those suggestions:</p> <pre> C:\dev\T&A>msbuild /t:_CopyWebApplication /property:OutDir=c:\temp\taweb\ /prope rty:WebProjectOutputDir=c:\temp\taweb\ Microsoft (R) Build Engine Version 3.5.30729.1 [Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 2.0.50727.3074] Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2007. All rights reserved. Build started 22/04/2009 11:50:42. Project "C:\dev\T&A\TAWeb.sln" on node 0 (_CopyWebApplication target(s)). Building solution configuration "Debug|.NET". C:\dev\T&A\TAWeb.sln : error MSB4057: The target "_CopyWebApplication" does not exist in the project. Done Building Project "C:\dev\T&A\TAWeb.sln" (_CopyWebApplication target(s)) -- FAILED. Build FAILED. "C:\dev\T&A\TAWeb.sln" (_CopyWebApplication target) (1) -> C:\dev\T&A\TAWeb.sln : error MSB4057: The target "_CopyWebApplication" does n ot exist in the project. 0 Warning(s) 1 Error(s) Time Elapsed 00:00:00.06 </pre> <p>The solution I'm trying to publish (inherited, not my own) doesn't have .csproj files (where I could import the _CopyWebApplication target from C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets)</p> <p>Perhaps this is a Visual Studio 2005/2008 difference?</p> <p>Anyway, I feel that I'm going down the wrong path there.</p> <p>Essentially I just need to achieve <em>exactly</em> what the above dialogue does, but from the command line.</p> <p>Thanks very much </p>
 

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