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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Web deployment projects for Visual Studio 2005 - can't find plugin on MSDN?

The Visual Studio 2005 web deployment project plugin used to be here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/Aa336619.aspx This just goes to the ASP.NET home page now, and I've had no luck Googling (or ... Binging?) for it. Does anyone know if…
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Web Deployment Project - specify version of aspnet_merge to use

we are having some problems with our WDP, which is deploying a ASP.NET 4.0 site. It seems to all go fine but when its deployed we are getting the System.BadImageFormatException: Bad binary signature. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131192) error, when…
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Deploy asp.net application without compiling DLL

When I publish any type of asp.net application, my code is precompiled into various assemblies. I would like to avoid this so that I can upload an aspx page and its corresponding codebehind file. I understand the benefits of doing it either way,…
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How do I automate repetitive tasks post-build?

I run an ASP.NET website solution with a few other projects in it. I've known that MSBuild projects are capable of this, but is it the best way? Are they easy to create? Is nAnt, CruiseControl.NET or any other solution better? When I build the site…
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Using rundll32.exe to launch a click once deployment URL?

I am using the following command from the command prompt in windows: C:\Users\myusername>rundll32.exe dfshim.dll,LaunchApplication "http://ClickOnceDeplymentURL.application" NULL 0 but nothing happens? No errors or nothing. I expect it to launch…
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Replacing sections in web.config using web deployment project

I am trying to replace the following section to blank section ..
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Deploy modular zend project on a sub-directory host

I am deploying a zend project myproject from a local host to a sub-directory www.subdirectory.com/~username/myproject, i am facing many problems even though i have read that there is no so much to change to when deploying zend project from local…
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Compiling/Embedding ASCX templated UserControls for reuse in multiple web applications

I'm onto a real head scratcher here ... and it appears to be one of the more frustrating topics of ASP.NET. I've got an assembly that implements a-lot of custom Linq stuff, which at it's core has zero web functionality. I have an additional…
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what to copy to production server when an update is made in a web application development environment

I have a web application built in Asp.net framework 3.5 (.Net 2008), and I use a Web Deployment Project (WDP) to compile it. I'd like to know, for instance if I made some changes to a code behind file (.aspx.vb), what files do I need to upload to…
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Customizing web deploy publish procedure

I'm investigating the powerful of WebDeploy based on Scott Hanselman's post. I was using Web Setup Project before, and trying to find an analog for Custom Actions in Web Deploy. Generally, is there a place in WebDeploy procedure I could integrate…
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How to get Subversion to work with auto-generated files?

I'm using ASP.NET Web Deployment Projects with TortoiseSVN and VisualSVN, but this is a general question about generated files in Subversion. A Web Deployment Project automatically generates a parallel "deployment" version of your website with all…
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ASP.NET MVC2 Areas not working in IIS6

I have an ASP.NET MVC 2 application running fine on both IIS7 and the VS Web Development server. I recently added areas to the site and these too work fine on IIS7 and the VS Web Development server. However when I deploy this site to an IIS6 test…
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NAnt Web Application Deployment

Good day. I'm trying to deploy a web application using NAnt. It is current zipped using the NAnt ZIP task. I can try calling MSDeploy from NAnt but I don't think MSDeploy was written for such deployments. I can also try using NAnt task. Does…
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VS 2008 Web Deployment - prevent folder from being deleted

I have an ASP.NET MVC 2 project that is built and then deployed using a web deployment project (Visual Studio 2008). The site has an uploads folder in the root of the site where user generated images are saved to. Whenever the build is run (using…
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InstallShield MVC2 Application deployment on IIS

I want to be able to deploy a MVC2 application as a web application on IIS using the installshield. When I try to deploy the application it just simple copies the whole solution to IIS instead of converting it to a web application. I created an MSI…