Question

In my Nant file I’ve got (paths shortened):

<echo message="#### TARGET - compile ####"/>
<echo message=""/>
<echo message="Build Directory is ${build.dir}" />

<exec program="${framework}\msbuild.exe"
      commandline="..\src\Solution.sln /m /t:Clean /p:Configuration=Release" />

<exec program="${framework}\msbuild.exe"
      commandline="..\src\Solution.sln /m /t:Rebuild  /p:Configuration=Release" />

<exec program="${framework}\msbuild.exe"
      commandline="..\src\Solution.sln /m /t:TransformWebConfig /p:Configuration=Release" />

Which results in:

Build FAILED.       "C:\..\src\Solution.sln" (TransformWebConfig target) (1) ->         C:\..\src\Solution.sln.metaproj : error MSB4057: The target "TransformWebConfig" does not exist in the project. [C:\..\src\Solution.sln]    0 Warning(s)    1 Error(s)Time Elapsed 00:00:00.05

The solution and associated projects are all VS2010 and the Web Application even has the correct reference in the .csproj:

<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" />

Shouldn’t this just work?

Answer 1

You can’t, it isn’t a problem specific to NAnt, you just can’t call TransformWebConfig on a solution file.

Solutions :

• Call it on your project file :

   <exec program="${framework}\msbuild.exe"
         commandline="..\src\WebApp\WebApp.csproj /m /t:TransformWebConfig /p:Configuration=Release" />
  

• Override the AfterBuild target in your project file to call TransformWebConfig :

  <Target Name="AfterBuild">
    <CallTarget Targets="TransformWebConfig"/>
  </Target>