Question

My .sln file has a website (and a few other web applications). The web applications get published to the _PublishedWebsites directory, but not the website. I am not using a custom build configuration. This happens in both Release and Debug mode.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

During the TFS build it checks the project file for Imports which it uses to define the build requirements. The Visual Studio 2010 import for web projects ($(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets) does not contain a definition for the outputting to *_PublishWebsites* as the Visual Studio 2009 one ($(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets) had.

To solve this you need to edit the web application target file on the build server to enable this functionality.

Additional information and assistance can be found at

• http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/zh/tfsbuild/thread/0bd3b8de-0397-41f1-b43a-5ccdd04f9436
• http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsbuild/thread/559a53e1-2eeb-48e9-a95f-400154b3333f