Creating and Deploying Web Package during TFS Build 2013

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:

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 :-)

  

• The ConverWorkspaceItem will transform the web application selected in the build definition to a local path

  

• In the If activity the main 2 activities are, Create Package (MSBuild activity) and Deploy Package (InvokeProcess activity)

  

• 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

  

• The Deploy Web Package (InvokeProcess)++activity will be as the following image:

  

• The created package on the working directory on the build agent will be as the following:

  

• The Deployment section on the build definition will be as the following:

  

• How to test the create deployment file on the build agent

• How to publish without a package using a publish profile

  

• How to add a parameters value inside the parameter file.xml that created with the package

  

Download the process Template