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POVirtualPath in AspNetCompiler MSBuild Task - does it have to be equal to the final deployed Virtual Path?
 

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    <p>This is VS 2008 and .Net 3.5.</p> <p>I use a custom deployment project script which is similar to the publish right-click menu, but which I have customised to do file renaming and various other bits and pieces. It works really well and has drastically simplified the release procedure.</p> <p>I was made aware of an issue on one of our live sites this weekend that would have been prevented had the site been precompiled (long story).</p> <p>So I've been playing around with injecting the AspNetCompiler MSBuild Task (using the PhysicalPath attribute to direct towards the intermediate publish folder) into the deployment script and I have a question regarding the 'VirtualPath' option.</p> <p>Despite the fact that the website is not in IIS at this pre-deploy stage, you are still required to provide a value for the 'VirtualPath' attribute. I have seen <a href="http://odetocode.com/Articles/417.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> that the associated -v switch on aspnet_compiler.exe uses this value in resolving '~' rooted virtual paths used throughout the site during the compilation.</p> <p>So, I take this to mean that whatever you pass here <strong>must</strong> be the virtual root of the application when deployed otherwise it won't work. </p> <p>However, I've tried this out, passing something like '/fake/fake' in this option and then changing one of my master pages to reference a css via an app-rooted url instead of relative, and it still worked even when deployed to a virtual path of '/site' and not '/fake/fake'.</p> <p>So what's the definitive answer on this? Do I need to worry about this VirtualPath value being exactly equal to the eventual deployed location of a site in IIS? I hope not, because I don't really want my deploy project to have any knowledge of the virtual hierarchy of the target web server, in case it needs to change.</p>
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