Not able to PUBLISH Visual Studio solution files from Teamcity

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I am using Teamcity with MSBuild to build my .NET application (Has three components : Daemon, MVC, WCF). Once, I build it, the corresponding application gets built and placed as a PACKAGE on an agent machine. When I navigate over to the location, I can see the application with all the sub folders. And inside each of the component folder is its corresponding Visual Studio solution file.

Now comes the question:

I really want to know how to PUBLISH these three solution files directly from Teamcity. My plan is, once I publish, I ll transfer the published files onto the target server and thereby host it on IIS.

I have tried almost all the possible ways to make it publish, but nothing works. Even tried adding a Visual Studio (sln) build runner to all the individual solution files from Teamcity , with the below command line parameters:

/Property:Configuration="ActivityManager.sln" /Property:DeployOnBuild=true /Property:PublishProfile="ActivityManager.sln" /Property:_PackageTempDir="..\ActivityManager\Publish"

This DOES NOT work.And says

"MSBuild command line parameters contain "/property:" or "/p:". It is recommended to define System Property on Build Parameters "

Later tried this in the Command line parameter:

/p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=DotNet /p:_PackageTempDir="..\ActivityManager\Publish"

This publishes only one of the solution files. And doesn't work for the others. Or an error says ***

Deployment Unpublishable

Please help !!!

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1 Answers

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Change directory to where your solution file is and execute the following command for deploying.

  C:\\Program Files (x86)\\MSBuild\\12.0\\Bin\\msbuild.exe SOLUTION.sln /p:DeployOnBuild=True /p:PublishProfile=PUBLISHING_PROFILE.pubxml /p:AllowUntrustedCertificate=True /p:UserName=USERNAME_OF_SERVER /p:Password=PASSWORD

This worked for me.

You can use a command line build step.