Publish web application from MSBuild Script using VS2010 targets resets working directory
- by Raoul
I am trying to automatically publish and deploy my .Net 4 web application automatically from a build script to be run by our continuous integration server. I am using the new _WPPCopyWebApplication target from VS2010 to perform the publish, however it appears to reset the current working directory of the msbuild project to c:\ this causes my prebuild steps to fail as they have relative paths to some external tools. The task I am running from our master.build file is as follows:
<Target Name="PublishWeb">
<MSBuild
Projects="$(ProjectPath)"
Targets="ResolveReferences;_WPPCopyWebApplication"
Properties="WebProjectOutputDir=$(DeployPath);OutDir=$(TempOutputFolder)$(WebOutputFolder)\;OutputPath=$(ProjectPath)\bin\Debug;" />
</Target>
This does not happen when using the legacy _CopyWebApplication. Does anyone have any idea how to resolve this problem?