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Visual Studio. Publish project from command line

Is there a way to publish a web project in MS Visual Studio 2010 using CLI? I use DevEnv.exe /Build to build a project and it works fine, but I could not find option to Publish a project.

One other thing I want to mention. I am trying to publish web project NOT to the IIS directly. I have a location where I publish several projects and then build them automatically into NSIS bundle to be deployed.

Solution

  • What works best is to add following target to the project file:

    <Target Name="AfterBuild">
   <Message Text="Copying to Deployment Dir:" />
   <Copy SourceFiles="@(Content)" DestinationFolder="..\XXX\%(Content.RelativeDir)" />
      <CreateItem Include="$(OutputPath)\*">
        <Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="Binaries"/>
      </CreateItem>
   <Copy SourceFiles="@(Binaries)" DestinationFolder="..\XXX\bin" />
</Target>

    This way, whenever project got build (from command line or from IDE) it automatically get deployed to specified folder. Thank you everybody for pointing me to right direction.