Clickonce Publish: How to do it on comamnd line

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gkustas@hvc.rr.com - 15 Jan 2006 00:04 GMT

After several hours reading up on Clickonce and hacking away, I was
able to get our (complex) application running from a remote network
shared folder. VERY cool. I used Visual Studio 2005 to reate the
application and deployment manifests, etc., using it's "Publish"
feature from within the IDE.

We already use MSBuild and devenv on the command line to automate our
project builds, and I need to do the same for building the clickonce
publishing.

I understand that I can use mage.exe, but seeing how much functionality
is already in the existing microsoft MSBuild tasks for this, I'm
betting that Visual studio is already using MSBuild every time the
publish function is run from the IDE.

Can anyone tell me if this is something wothwhile persuing, and if so,
is there any doc out there that could help with this?

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gkustas@hvc.rr.com - 23 Jan 2006 15:17 GMT

In case anyone cares, it's pretty simple to build the publication from
the command line:

msbuild /t:publish yourproject.csproj

However, to set up you csproj file with the correct files, etc., the
easiest thing to do is to publish it once from the IDE. This will save
all of your publish properties in the csproj so that you can do a
simple command line build afterwards

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tbirdsall@gmail.com - 23 Jan 2006 15:47 GMT

Hi,

You may want to check out the Web Deployment Project:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/web
_deployment_projects.asp

I have also compiled a list of MSBuild tutorials and resources you may
find helpful:

http://www.tod1d.net/blog/2005/12/msbuild-turorials-and-resources.html

Enjoy.

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software blog: http://tod1d.net

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