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Creating and Deploying Web Package during TFS Build 2013

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I have an old post that perform the same idea with TFS 2010 but as usual there are some differences with TFS 2013:-) How to run remote deploy with MS Deploy I tried many ways with many blog posts, they are almost the same but none of them worked for me, so I decide to create my own solution and share that include the Build Process Template, Of course I needed to install MSDeploy (Web Deploy 3.5) on the Build machine, remember how to install Web Deployment Agent Service if it’s not available

Customize the process template as the following:

Note: I didn’t include error handling during the customization, you may need to do that 🙂

  • Adding ConverWorkspaceItem and If activities, we could add ConverWorkspaceItem part of the If sequence, this even could be better, you can do that too 🙂 ConvertWorkspaceItem and Create packge with Deploy
  • The ConverWorkspaceItem will transform the web application selected in the build definition to a local path ConverWorkspaceItem
  • In the If activity the main 2 activities are, Create Package (MSBuild activity) and Deploy Package (InvokeProcess activity) Create and Deploy package workflow
  • The Create Package activity will be as the following:
    • Configuration —> the configuration that entered in the build definition
    • CommandLineArgument —->  /t:build;publish
    • Project —-> the project that transformed from ConverWorkspaceItem activity

Create Package - MSBuild

  • The Deploy Web Package (InvokeProcess) activity will be as the following image: Deploy Web Package InvokeProcess
  • The created package on the working directory on the build agent will be as the following: Web Package
  • The Deployment section on the build definition will be as the following: Dev_Build_Deploy
  • How to test the create deployment file on the build agent Run file.Deploy.cmd
  • How to publish without a package using a publish profile Run MSBuild with publish profile
  • How to add a parameters value inside the parameter file.xml that created with the package Create Web package and add one paramter in the file

Download the process Template


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