Questions tagged [web-deployment-project]

Web Deployment Projects provides developers with advanced compilation options for ASP.NET projects. A Web Deployment Project is an extensible MSBuild script, enabling web developers to create pre-build and post-build actions.

Web Deployment Projects provides developers with advanced compilation options for ASP.NET projects. A Web Deployment Project is an extensible script, enabling web developers to create pre-build and post-build actions.

Web Deployment Projects have been deprecated since Visual Studio 2012, as equivalent functionality is available through the Web Publishing Pipeline ()

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Weird issue with Web Deployment projects 2010

i'm in the process or upgrading my CI configuration to Web Deployment projects 2010 (from 2008) i'm geting a really strange issue durin build as shown below - i've been looking into it a a few hours to no resolve, and am starting to think the issue…
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Is it possible to deploy an ASP.NET application as desktop application (with server component)

Question: I created an ASP.NET web application. Now it originally was meant for deployment on a webserver. That is working, so, so far so good. My question now is: Is it possible to deploy it as a desktop-application, too? That is to say the…
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VS 2010 Deployment without Web Deploy

With VS 2008 I always used Web Deployment Projects to build to three different environments. It is maybe not the best solution, since I still have to xcopy the built files to the server, but it is simple. Now with VS 2010 it looks promising, but it…
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How to create web deployment package in Visual Studio 2013

I am now using the Visual Studio 2013, where I want to create a web deployment installer for project like I am doing in Visual Studio 2008. But I am not getting any option inside Setup and Deployment. Can anybody please guide me how to create the…
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Deploying a Django Opensource Application with dependencies

I'm working with a friend on a web application we'd like to distribute and we're working in Django. I'd like to make sure deployment is as easy as possible for potential users. It seems that Django uses shared installed libraries alot and I'd like…
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Better alternative to Web Deploy Projects

I have a solution with a fair few projects, 3 of them web-based (WCF in IIS / MVC site). When the solution builds, it dumps each of the components of this distributed system in a 'Build' folder. Running the 'configurator' part of the whole output…
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TeamCity automate build to production

Recently been trying to setup a build server to help automate my deployment. My question is are people using build servers like TeamCity to push changes to production (WebDeploy)servers (as well as your test server)? If so are you doing it by…
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msdeploy v2 doesn't work with vs2010's packages

I had v1 of msdeploy installed and I uninstalled it to install the v2. Now my vs2010 packages fail when I run the deploy.cmd because it can't find the registry entry - even though I've created an MSDeployPath environment variable pointing to the v2…
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Producing a WAR file from a django project with SQLite

I have a django project (a django module/app some other modules that are used from the django one) that uses SQLite. This project is for a University course and now I am asked to supply it in such a way so that it may be installed on some server in…
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ASP.NET compiler fails with an XmlSerializers error, during web-deployment project

We're using Visual Studio 2010 Web deployment projects to compile web-application websites during our build. Visual Studio 2010 is not installed on our build-agents. We get an error (see below) during the build relating to the…
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"Incorrect Format" reference error while building Web Deployment project in TeamCity

I began setting up a TeamCity server a couple days ago for use in automated testing and CI. We mainly do VB.net web apps and up until now, it had been checking out things and building just fine. A problem came up when I tried to add actual…
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You do not have permission to view this directory or page in Django app on Azure

I am trying to deploy from my github repo a Django app. The deployment is successful, and when I check from the Azure command line, the files are there. However, when I access the website I get the following message: "You do not have permission to…
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Deployment Project dlls cause 'type x exists in both' errors

I have a WebApplication project, a business logic project, and a WebDeployment project for the web app. When I build solution, the deployment "Release" bin contains 1 dll for each of the projects - so I get one for MyWeb.dll, MyWebBusiness.dll,…
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Web deployment: Exclude directories depending on Project Configuration name

I want to delete some image resources depending on what build I'm releasing using MsDeploy. I have three builds for different clients which are basicly another theme and a lot of configuration transforms to setup their environments correctly. I…
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Do Web Deployment Projects work with x86 build configuration

I have a need to build a website and several DLLs that it references in an x86 configuration. To date we have been using Web Deployment Projects to create Zip files of the resultant site and all it's required files. We need to continue to use WDPs…
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