Update the kudu script to use msbuild command to publish just the web project in the solution

[vijayrkn]

Replace this

:: 2. Build and publish 
call :ExecuteCmd "%MSBUILD_PATH%" "%DEPLOYMENT_SOURCE%\AspNetCoreVS.sln" /nologo /verbosity:m /p:deployOnBuild=True;AutoParameterizationWebConfigConnectionStrings=false;Configuration=Release;UseSharedCompilation=false;publishUrl="%DEPLOYMENT_TEMP%" %SCM_BUILD_ARGS%

with

:: 2. Build
call :ExecuteCmd "%MSBUILD_PATH%" "%DEPLOYMENT_SOURCE%\AspNetCoreVS.sln" /nologo /verbosity:m /p:AutoParameterizationWebConfigConnectionStrings=false;Configuration=Release;UseSharedCompilation=false" %SCM_BUILD_ARGS%
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:: 3. Publish
call :ExecuteCmd "%MSBUILD_PATH%" "/AspNetCoreVS.xproj" /nologo /verbosity:m /t:GatherAllFilesToPublish /p:AutoParameterizationWebConfigConnectionStrings=false;Configuration=Release;UseSharedCompilation=false;PublishOutputPathNoTrailingSlash="%DEPLOYMENT_TEMP%" %SCM_BUILD_ARGS%

[watashiSHUN]

How can I figure out which .xproj file to pass to msbuild?
and how does msbuild find the .xproj file since you are only passing the relative filepath

[vijayrkn]

Ahmed had mentioned that this is how Kudu identifies the webproject from the solution.

We publish the web xproj file and expect to only be one when we’re auto discovering. The way we do that is by looking for an xproj project with a web.config file.

Regarding the path, it needs to be the relative path to the web xproj file.

[watashiSHUN]

what version of msbuild is being used? I am testing with the following deployment script:

:: 2. Build
call :ExecuteCmd "%MSBUILD_PATH%" "%DEPLOYMENT_SOURCE%\AspNetCoreRC2.sln" /nologo /verbosity:m /p:AutoParameterizationWebConfigConnectionStrings=false;Configuration=Release;UseSharedCompilation=false %SCM_BUILD_ARGS%
IF !ERRORLEVEL! NEQ 0 goto error

:: 3. Publish
call :ExecuteCmd "%MSBUILD_PATH%" "/AspNetCoreRC2.xproj" /nologo /verbosity:m /t:GatherAllFilesToPublish /p:AutoParameterizationWebConfigConnectionStrings=false;Configuration=Release;UseSharedCompilation=false;PublishOutputPathNoTrailingSlash="%DEPLOYMENT_TEMP%" %SCM_BUILD_ARGS%
IF !ERRORLEVEL! NEQ 0 goto error

but I got an error

remote: MSBUILD : error MSB1001: Unknown switch.
remote: Switch: /AspNetCoreRC2.xproj

it looks like MSbuild only takes .sln or .proj file from the DOC

[vijayrkn]

"%MSBUILD_PATH%" "/AspNetCoreVS.xproj"
This '"/AspNetCoreVS.xproj"' was just an example, the xproj path needs to be replaced with the xproj that needs to be published.

[watashiSHUN]

@vijayrkn the new Kudu is out, please give it a try