Question

Good day!

I’ve found this solution here: VS2010 Web Publish command line version of File System deploy

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe 
.\MyProject.csproj /p:Configuration=Release;DeployOnBuild=True;PackageAsSingleFile=False;outdir=c:\_OuputDir\

But it seems that Web.config transformations are not performed.

May be there is better\cleaner way to duplicate “Publish Web” VS2010 dialog?

Update: The answer which is marked is the shortest command-line to perform publish, that I’ve found so far. Web.config transformations ARE applied, but connection strings are treated differently, here is a description\workaround

Answer 1

This might work (which I found here):

msbuild solution.sln /p:Configuration=Release;DeployOnBuild=true;DeployTarget=Package;_PackageTempDir=..\publish

However, it gave me the following error when I tried to run it (which I’m still working to fix):

C:\[path]\[config]\csautoparameterize\original\web.config(40): error ASPCONFIG: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition=’MachineToApplication’ beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS.