Question

I’m using Team Foundation Server, and I have to make a compressed zip file from my source code automatically everytime the build server builds the code.
This is a fragment of my project file:

<Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
<UsingTask TaskName="TransformXml" AssemblyFile="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.dll" />
<Target Name="AfterBuild">
    <CallTarget Targets="Zipper" />
</Target>
<Target Name="Zipper" Condition="'$(ConfigTransform)'=='ImRunningOnTheServer'">
    <!-- I NEED A "COMPRESSION TASK" HERE-->
</Target>

Are there any compression task available? Maybe the desired task is defined in the Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.dll assembly – but I don’t know where it is. It is not available in the GAC, I think only on the build server.

Answer 1

There are Compression Tasks are part of the MSBuild Extension Pack. I cannot find a link in the documentation at the moment (I think it’s broken, or not IE9 compatible) to them, but they are there.