Where is the documentation for MSBUILD arguments to run MSDEPLOY?
- by Simon_Weaver
There is an excellent PDC talk available here which describes the new MSDEPLOY features in Visual Studio 2010 - as well as how to deploy an application within TFS.
The talk explains some of the command line parameters such as :
/p:DeployOnBuild
/p:DeployTarget=MsDeployPublish
/p:CreatePackageOnPublish=True
/p:MSDeployPublishMethod=InProc
/p:MSDeployServiceURL=localhost
/p:DeployIISAppApth="Default Web Site"
But where is the documentation for this - explaining how they work and what i should use?
Most of these turn up very few or zero results when searching. Isn't there some actual documentation for these parameters somewhere? I'd rather use these to deploy than try to add a command line exec command to run the package.
I've managed to create a web deployment package, which TFS is copying to the output.
But I'm ending up with all kinds of errors trying to actually deploy the package.
Currently in my build configuration in TFS I have the following arguments for MSBuild Arguments
/p:DeployOnBuild=True
/p:DeployTarget=MsDeployPublish
/p:Configuration=Release
/p:CreatePackageOnPublish=True
/p:DeployIisAppPath=staging.example.com
/p:MsDeployServiceUrl=localhost
This however gives me this error :
Is there any actual real documentation for these arguments?
It would probably take me about 5 minutes to get it running the package by the command line, but i want to get them deploying like this because it will simplify multiple configurations later.
