Question

is it possible to make nant run a publish on mvc project or a good old web application project
and after the publish make nant FTP the files to the web server

UPDATE: found the solution to the ftp problem
Nant ftp task thanks Paco

what i mean by publich
is there a command line application or nant task that can public like visual studio publish…

Answer 1

The visual studio publish command rebuilds your solution and then copies the files in the solution directory to a new directory. I use the following target to do almost the same:

<target name='copyToPublish'>     <delete dir='${dir.publish}' />     <mkdir dir='${dir.publish}' />     <mkdir dir='${dir.publish}\wwwroot'/>     <copy todir='${dir.publish}\wwwroot' includeemptydirs='false'>       <fileset basedir='${website.dir}'>         <exclude name='**/*.cs'/>         <exclude name='**/*.pdb'/>         <exclude name='**/*.csproj*'/>         <exclude name='**/obj/**'/>         <include name='**/*.*'/>       </fileset>     </copy>     <mkdir dir='${dir.publish}\database'/>     <copy todir='${dir.publish}\database' includeemptydirs='false'>       <fileset basedir='${dir.databasescripts}'>         <include name='**/*.sql' />       </fileset>     </copy>     <xmlpoke             file='${dir.publish}\wwwroot\Web.config'             xpath='/configuration/system.web/compilation/@debug'             value='false' />     <xmlpoke             file='${dir.publish}\wwwroot\Web.config'             xpath='/configuration/system.web/trace/@enabled'             value='false' />     <move file='${dir.publish}\wwwroot\Web.config' tofile='${dir.publish}\wwwroot\Release.config' overwrite='true' />     <delete file='${dir.publish}\wwwroot\Web.config' /> </target> 

Before this target you have to run the normal build procedure of course.