Tfs Build Server 2015 publish specific project

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I want to use the TFS Build server. I want the build server to build related projects, publish and deploy to other servers.

I have set up the server and build agent. It is time to define build definitions. But I have a problem here.

We use VS 2015 and we have a big solution. It includes many dll projects, web sites and a WCF project.

I want to define build definitions for each web sites seperatly. for example when I run build definition A, it should only publish website A. And I do not want to build the whole solution to publish website A. Only necessary projects should be built.

How can I do this ?

Thanks for your help.

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Are you using vNext build or Xaml based build? – Angshuman
ok instead of specifying the .sln file try to specify the csproj file, but you will need to change a lot in the Msbuild command. – Angshuman
can you give example or source ? – Çağatay
Give me some time. I might be wrong here. – Angshuman

1 Answers

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i have finally found a solution.

  • Firstly, i added VisualStudioBuild Task,
  • set Solution Path variable to the .csproj file that i wanted to build and publish,
  • set Repository and cloak unnecessary projects,

  • set MSBuild Arguments as;

    /p:OutputPath=bin/$(BuildConfiguration)
/p:DeployOnBuild=True
/p:DeployTarget=MSDeployPublish
/p:MsDeployServiceUrl=https://xxx:8172/MsDeploy.axd
/p:AllowUntrustedCertificate=true 
/p:DeployIisAppPath="Default Web Site/xxx" 
/p:MSDeployPublishMethod=WMSVC 
/p:CreatePackageOnPublish=True 
/p:UserName=xxx
/p:password=xxx

The important argument is OutPutPath here. If you do not give this property and try to build a csproj, msbuild throws exception.