Command line MSBuild 4 and MSDeploy

Question

I am trying to automate the deployment of a site. I started with this article

and everything works fine with VS 2010. However, I am having problems with the command line. I use this

c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe "d:\Projects\test.csproj" /T:Package /P:PackageLocation="d:\Package\packageTest.zip" 

to create a package

and

 d:\Projects\packageTest.deploy.cmd "-setParam:name='IIS Web Application Name',value=MSBuild/Test2" /y 

to at least deploy correctly. However, it does not accept any of the IIS parameters (the application pool is MSBuild instead of ASP.NET v2.0), and, as I said, the name of the IIS web application is erroneous. Should this information not be extracted from a .csproj file? All these settings are made for the debug configuration and platform of any cpu

Answer 1

Usually you first configure your application on IIS, with the correct path, application pool, etc. When configuring, you can use MSBuild to deploy the application into this name as follows:

 msbuild <your_web_project_name>.csproj /p:Configuration=Release /p:OutputPath=bin /p:DeployOnBuild=True /p:DeployTarget=MSDeployPublish /p:MsDeployServiceUrl=https://<url_to_your_server>:8080/msdeploy.axd /p:username=<username> /p:password=<password> /p:AllowUntrustedCertificate=True /p:DeployIisAppPath=<your_site_name> /p:MSDeployPublishMethod=WMSVC /p:VisualStudioVersion=11.0 

If you do not want to configure the site manually, you can run a power shell that looks something like this:

 Import-Module WebAdministration New-Item iis:\Sites\<your_site_name> -bindings @{protocol="http";bindingInformation=":80:<your_site_name>} -physicalPath c:\inetpub\wwwroot\<your_site_name> Set-ItemProperty 'IIS:\Sites\<your_site_name>' ApplicationPool "ASP.NET v4.0"