Troubles with FB 5 and Web Application Project

FinalBuilder Discussion
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Hi,

 

We upgraded our major Web Site to a VS 2005 SP1 Web Applcation Project (WAP) to improve build times.

Tonight was my first attempt at deploying our new WAP using FinalBuilder,  but I'm not having any luck in publishing or building the WAP and all it's dependencies and contents to a specific folder (other than the folder it resides in).

Previously, I built the solution using the VS.NET Build action and specified in the Solution file XML to "compile" to a PreCompiled folder. To deploy the whole web site, I just xcopy'd the files from the PreCompiled folder across FTP or onto a network drive.

The same approach doesn't work for WAPs.

 

How do I publish the WAP to a folder using Finalbuilder (like I can in VS)?

Should I be using another action instead?

Thanks,

-Vijay

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Hi Vijay,

Thanks for your post. To do this, you’ll need to create a Visual Studio Web Deployment project for the WAP. You can then use this to deploy the site, using the MSBuild Action.

There’s a blog post which explains how to create and configure a deployment project, here:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/11/06/429723.aspx

Regards,

Angus