Question

Is it possible to accomplish publish (as in Visual Studio publish on Web Application project) on solution using NAnt? I just can’t find the solution.

Answer 1

They key is to use the built-in ‘_CopyWebApplication’ target.

Here is what i do

<target name='compile' description='Compiles the project.'>         <exec basedir='.' program='${DotNetPath}msbuild.exe' commandline=' src/MyProject.Web/MyProject.Web.csproj /nologo    /t:Rebuild   /t:ResolveReferences;_CopyWebApplication   /p:OutDir=../../output/build/bin/   /p:WebProjectOutputDir=../../output/build/   /p:Debug=${debug}   /p:Configuration=${configuration}   /v:m'     workingdir='.' failonerror='true' />     </target> 

with the dir structure of:

/project.build /src/myprojct.sln /src/myporject.web/myproject.web.csproj /output 

Edit: i also use this to use the YUI compression to compress my css and js

<target name='compress-js'>         <foreach item='File' property='filename'>             <in>                 <items basedir='output/build/assets/javascript/'>                     <include name='/**/*.js' />                     <exclude name='/**/*.min.js' />                     <exclude name='/**/*.pack.js' />                 </items>             </in>             <do>                 <exec basedir='.' program='${JavaPath}java' commandline=' -jar S:\yuicompressor-2.4.1\build\yuicompressor-2.4.1.jar --type js --charset utf-8 -o &quot;${filename}&quot; &quot;${filename}&quot;' failonerror='true' />             </do>         </foreach>     </target>       <target name='compress-css' depends='combine-css'>         <foreach item='File' property='filename'>             <in>                 <items basedir='output/build/assets/css/'>                     <include name='/**/*.css' />                     <exclude name='/**/*.min.css' />                     <exclude name='/**/*.pack.css' />                 </items>             </in>             <do>                 <exec basedir='.' program='S:\Java\jdk1.6.0_11\bin\java' commandline=' -jar S:\yuicompressor-2.4.1\build\yuicompressor-2.4.1.jar --type css --charset utf-8 -o &quot;${filename}&quot; &quot;${filename}&quot;' failonerror='true' />             </do>         </foreach>     </target>