How do I deploy my website using MSBuild in TeamCity - web

I am trying to use teamCity to deploy my Visual Studio C# solution to my website.
The difficult part is that the solution is composed of 4 project snd one website.
If I try to use MSBuild witn /P params on the solution.sln it does not upload the website, it does however compile the other 4 projects. I have tried using MSBuild and specifying the name of the website .csproject but here is the trick, I don't have a .csproject for the website because it was added to the solution as a 'new website' and not 'new web application' so there is no project file for the website itself.
How can I achieve this ?
Thanks
Pat

Check the Microsoft Docs for ASP.NET Web Deployment using Visual Studio: Command Line Deployment

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In Visual Studio 2015 you could easily set an MVC app to use full IIS by right clicking on the project & going to properties.
It's not clear how to do this in a vanilla .NET Core Web (MVC) project in Visual Studio 2017.
I can find nothing about this on Google - am I looking in the wrong place?
You can host it behind iis.
There are basicly four things you have to do besides having iis installed offcourse:
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https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=837808
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There is a more detailed article on how to publish your application to iis.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/publishing/iis
I didn't find a way to do it directly from visual studio 2017.
Update:
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protected override void ConfigureTargets(ITaskContext session)
{
session.CreateTarget("iis.install").Do(IisInstall);
}
private static void IisInstall(ITaskContext context)
{
context.Tasks().IisTasks()
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.ManagedRuntimeVersion("No Managed Code")
.Mode(CreateApplicationPoolMode.DoNothingIfExists)
.Execute(context);
context.Tasks().IisTasks()
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.WebsiteName("SomeWebSiteName")
.BindingProtocol("Http")
.Port(2000)
.PhysicalPath("SomePhysicalPath")
.ApplicationPoolName("SomeAppPoolName")
.WebsiteMode(CreateWebApplicationMode.DoNothingIfExists)
.Execute(context);
}
And then to integrate it with visual studio 2017 run this script with flubu dotnet cli tool in prebuild or postbuild event with command 'dotnet flubu iis.install'. I Would rather run the tool from command line explicitly.
You can find more information about flubu and how to get started here:
Choice for build tool: MSBuild, NANT or something else?

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Atm I'm getting:
Couldn't determine an appropriate version of KRE to run.
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Example:
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Once the above step is done, in IIS, you can create a virtual directory application (or Website if you wish) to this deployable package's wwwroot folder. Example: "C:\MyWebApps\WebApplication1\wwwroot"
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Anyway the solution for me was to:
right click the project in question in Solution Explorer
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tick Use Specific DNX version
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Visual Studio 2012 Website Publish Not Copying .pdb files

I have used VS 2010 and VS2008. When I used them with my WCF Service projects, my .PDB files were always copied when I did a Publish Web Site. Now, with VS2012, no PDB files are getting copied when I do a Publish Web Site. The PDB files ARE getting created for both Debug and Release but nothing happens when I do a Publish Web Site (for either Debug or Release).
I have searched this forum (and the Internet). My solution is as follows:
1) WCF Service Library project.
2) WCF Service Web Site
When I first did a publish, I had to create a profile and I did this.
When I right-click on the WCF Service Library project and select properties, I only get tabs for Application, Build, Build Events, Debug, Resources, Services, Settings, Reference Paths, Signing, WCF Options, Code Analysis. I do NOT get tabs for Package/Publish Web and other items that I used to get. I tried to right click on my WCF Service Web Site project and there is nothing in the Property Pages to indicate this.
I have even tried to add items to my .pubxml file and that does not work.
I wouldn't think I'd need to update my Debugging options to specify Symbols location. I would think that my Publish should just "do it" like it did in 2008 and 2010. Any advice?
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In VS2012 Website publishing, symbols are always excluded by default. Why? It comes down to a design issue where website projects don't actually have a build configuration. If you look at the configuration manager in VS when your solution is in Release mode, the website project will always be in Debug mode; there are no other options. This is because website projects are not MSBuild based, and hence do not respect MSBuild configurations.
Instead, you can edit your .pubxml to tell it to include the symbols. Try adding this:
<PropertyGroup>
<ExcludeGeneratedDebugSymbol>False</ExcludeGeneratedDebugSymbol>
</PropertyGroup>
For me this worked (in the publishing profile):
<PropertyGroup>
...
<DebugSymbols>True</DebugSymbols>
</PropertyGroup>
Or using the publishing wizard:

TFS/MSBuild build/publish web deploy does not transform the web.config files

I'm trying to deploy a two-websites project in a Visual Studio 2012 solution via TFS as part of a build. We're at the point where we have two different web servers, WIP (work in progress) and DEV.
We want to deploy different connection strings to either server so they can connect to different databases. We've tested our solution on a development machine with Visual Studio and for all configurations, when any web project is published, the web.config connection string is transformed as expected when we check the web server.
The build is working fine on the WIP server which uses the default Debug solution configuration. The configuration in the TFS Build is Any CPU|Debug.
For the next configuration (DEV), we are sure that the web projects both publish via Visual Studio 2012 to the web servers and that the web.config files transform.
However, when we run the DEV build using MSBuild arguments, we notice that no transformation happens. We've sent the configuration in the Items to Build section of the build to: Any CPU|Dev.
/p:VisualStudioVersion=10.0 /p:DeployOnBuild=True;PublishProfile=app.ui.dev.pubxml /p:DeployTarget=MsDeployPublish /p:MsDeployServiceUrl=https://server-dev-hrtech:8172/MSDeploy.axd /p:CreatePackageOnPublish=True /p:MSDeployPublishMethod=WMSVC /p:AllowUntrustedCertificate=True /p:Username=username /p:Password=password /p:_WPPCopyWebApplication=True /p:PipelineDependsOnBuild=False
When we look at the build log and output directories - we can see compiled assemblies in the obj/Debug directory and not the obj/Dev directory as we'd expected. In the logs, we can clearly see /p:Configuration="Dev" as we'd expect.
The bottom line is the published web.config that ends up on the web server is the default web.config file from the Debug configuration (that is, untransformed). It is as if MSBuild is unable to see the configuration parameter passed in the arguments for the solution.
I've now tried running msbuild from the command line on my development machine to try and understand why this would happen.
By stripping back the MSBuild parameters that are sent via the TFS build, I can see that this doesn't transform the web config:
msbuild "app-no database.sln" /t:app_ui:Rebuild /P:TransformConfigFiles=true /p:Configuration=Dev /p:Platform="Any CPU" /p:MSDeployServiceUrl=https://app-dev-hrtech:8172/MSDeploy.axd /p:Username=username /p:Password=password /p:DeployOnBuild=True /p:PublishProfile=app.ui.dev.pubxml /p:VisualStudioVersion=11.0 > build.log
I can modify this and use MSBuild to build the project file directly. I've discovered that the command below does transform the web.config file for the published application:
msbuild app.ui\app.ui.csproj /p:Configuration=Dev /p:MSDeployServiceUrl=https://app-dev-hrtech:8172/MSDeploy.axd /p:Username=username /p:Password=password /p:DeployOnBuild=True /p:PublishProfile=app.ui.dev.pubxml /p:VisualStudioVersion=11.0 /p:AllowUntrustedCertificate=True > build.log
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How can I use the first command, but amend it so that it properly transforms the web project?
As you can see I've created some publish profiles, so potentially they can be used in the MSBuild arguments as well in the TFS Build.
PS: we're using Visual Studio 2012, TFS 2010, Windows 2008R2 for servers and Windows 7 for development machines.
I've encountered this problem, regarding how to publish a web site through Publish Profile file, this article is the best one I ever saw.
For you case, it seems that you need to make the profile name same as the configuration name, e.g. use Dev.pubxml and Web.Dev.config.
/p:DeployOnBuild=True;PublishProfile=app.ui.dev.pubxml
I dont think that .pubxml should be at the end of the profile.
Should be like this
/p:DeployOnBuild=True;PublishProfile=app.ui.dev
It looks like TFS 2010 Build doesn't call the Transform MSBuild task by default. You need to edit either your TFS build defintion to add a new activity which calls it or edit your project file to do this.
Stack Overflow question TFS Build not transforming web.config as expected should help you with adding the new acitivty and blog post Integrating Web Config Transformations with TFS Build for making changes to the project file.
I just had this problem. Checked the MSBuild logs, checked making a local ZIP package, checked Web Deploy push to remote IIS and it was always using the default config file!
Turned out that the lump of XML I was looking at to check for my QA settings was lacking the xdt:Transform="Replace" attribute!
Hope this helps someone.

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