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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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How to backup a Web.config before Installing with VS MSI Installer

I am using a regular Visual Studio Setup Project to deploy my ASP.NET application. I need to handle the case of an existing web.config existing in the target directory. When one is found, it needs to be renamed before the install takes place. If…
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CruiseControl.NET with a web deployment project

We are currently using a web deployment project to compile the projects in our solution and deploy our website. We'd like to move to using CruiseControl .NET to give us the abilities to automate the builds, add testing, and initiate/review them…
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ASP.NET: What deployment options do I have?

I'll soon be managing a fleet of ASP.NET webservers... What are the technical limitations with deploying an ASP.NET webserver? Can I just copy the file(s) over, restart the website, and I'm good to go? Is this any different than what VS2010's…
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How to create a setup project that supports multiple instances (multiple installing)?

I'm using Visual Studio 2010, and I have created a project which I'm trying to install using the setup from Visual Studio 2010. How do I installed it multiple times? I didn't find the answer on the web. I have read some documents about orca and…
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Why does my Web Deployment Project remove .ascx files from my MVC2 project?

I am currently working on a project that consists of an ASP.NET MVC 2.0 front end and has been developed in VS 2008. I have been messing around with the Web Deployment Project to deploy the application so we can also change various Web.config…
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Tutorial on how to setup multiple laravel 5.1 apps in one project

I am currently working on a Laravel 5.1 project which involves a public section and a admin section. When googling around the issue I was having, I came across this stack post managing user role log in. Where the first post recommends. Admin and…
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Web Deployment Project failed to map path for include virtual

I am building my site with a web deployment project but the build fails with a number of errors all relating to the "#include virtual" directives in my master page. The includes are necessary to import a set of centrally managed html template…
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Include date in web publishing package filename; visual studio

When creating a new deployment package (e.g. per http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465323(v=vs.110).aspx) you're asked to provide a package location. I'd like to append a timestamp to this filename, so that I can easily access older…
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Problems with WiX and Visual Studio web deployment project

We want to create an .MSI package from a web deployment project in Visual Studio 2008. Now we want to use continuous integration and we would need the .MSI package build in the nightly builds. Till now we used standard Visual Studio Web Setup…
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Web Deployment Project AfterBuild path problems

I'm currently in the process of setting up a build server for a web project. I'm using Web Deployment Project to create a deployable package and I want to do some simple file administration (copy webDeploy.config -> web.config and delete .csproj…
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Does the Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2008 really require .NET Framework version 3.5?

I'm packaging up a .NET 2.0 based web app for deployment through a Windows Installer based package. Our app uses Report Viewer 2008 and I'm including the Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2008 installer. When I check the download page for…
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Performance benefit to pre-compiling web application project set to be updateable?

Is there any performance benefit to pre-compiling an asp.net web application if it's set to be updateable? By setting the pre-compiler updateable flag it doesn't pre-compile the aspx, ascx, etc. so those still have to be compiled at run-time on the…
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Access denied when creating a virtual directory via Web Deployment Project

I’m trying to use a (VS 2008) Web Deployment project in a TFS solution to deploy the web site to the (TFS 2008) build server to run web based unit tests. For some reason, that I can't yet figure out, it is failing to create the virtual…
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Deploying ASP.NET applications: Push vs. Pull?

How do you deploy ASP.NET applications? Do you push it to production servers using UNC paths/mapped drives? FTP? SFTP? SSH/SCP (via 3rd party app installed)? Something else? Or do you pull it from the production servers with a Source control update…
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How to add a "deployment project" in visual studio 2010

I understand the concept: building one project which forces other builds and concentrate all the bins into one target directory. I am not able to add a "deployment project" to my solution successfully. Are there conditions or restrictions to adding…
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