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Asked: 2026-05-10T20:25:01+00:00

All, I currently have my solution comprising of 2 Class librarys and a Web

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All,

I currently have my solution comprising of 2 Class librarys and a Web Site building within teamCity using Msbuild. Now I want to precompile the website and make it available as an artifact. However when i try to Precompile it using 

<Target Name='PrecompileWeb' DependsOnTargets='Build'>     <AspNetCompiler         PhysicalPath='$(BuildDir)\Location\'          TargetPath='$(BuildDir)\Publish'         Force='true'         Debug='true'          />   </Target>

I get an error becasue it is looking for a virtual path (which i don’t have as all I want to do it precompile the files I am not interested in publishing the site) if I put a dummy path in I get another error (correctly) about it not being an application under IIS

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  1. Is this a Web Site or Web Application Project? If the latter, instead of doing an AspNetCompiler task, do an MSBuild task to the csproj/vbproj file, calling the targets Rebuild;ResolveReferences;_CopyWebApplication and specifying the OutDir property.

    If you are using a website, then specify the VirtualPath to be a valid IIS path. What is happening is that, when you don’t specify the VirtualPath property, it tries to resolve it using the PhysicalPath and IIS. I believe that’s just an artifact of how the AspNetCompiler works.

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