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MSBuild and Web Projects

by DRohm 1. December 2005 17:42

I'm finally getting around to experimenting with .NET 2.0 and VS 2005.  One of the more interested features is MSBuild.  I'm currently reading up on it since the built-in support for web site deployments is serverely lacking.  One tool that I think everyone should download and use if you're doing any ASP.NET development is the Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects.  It's a Visual Studio 2005 add-in that adds the ability to create a deployment project to your solution for creating build and deployment options for your web projects.  Specifically (from their web site):

A Web Deployment Project creates and maintains an MSBuild project file, and is associated in a solution with a Web site project. A Web Deployment Project enables you to manage not only build configuration and merge options, but other tasks such as specifying changes for the application's Web.config file during compilation, changing connection strings, creating virtual directories, and performing other tasks at specific points in the deployment process.

I'm still learning MSBuild and this tool and will post again when I have a better grasp of how to best do deployments with 2.0.

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