Web Deployment in TFS2012 - Part 2

In the previouse post i have shown how to publish.
this we publish the whole site, but what if i need external resources or exclude some config files?
so i looked around good people and here is what i found (also validated):

Adding to the Deployment
 <PropertyGroup>
    <CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForPackageDependsOn>
      CustomCollectFiles;
      $(CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForPackageDependsOn);
    </CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForPackageDependsOn>
  </PropertyGroup>
 
  <Target Name="CustomCollectFiles">
    <ItemGroup>
      <_CustomFiles Include="D:\Dev\W2012TFS2012Prd\DefaultCollection\Test\MySites\MvcApplication\Properties\PublishProfiles\**\*" />
 
      <FilesForPackagingFromProject  Include="%(_CustomFiles.Identity)">
        <DestinationRelativePath>Extra Files\%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)</DestinationRelativePath>
      </FilesForPackagingFromProject>
    </ItemGroup>
  </Target>

taken From: http://sedodream.com/2010/05/01/WebDeploymentToolMSDeployBuildPackageIncludingExtraFilesOrExcludingSpecificFiles.aspx

Exclude From Deployment
<PropertyGroup>

    <ExcludeFilesFromPackageDependsOn>

        $(ExcludeFilesFromPackageDependsOn);

        _ExcludeAzureDlls

    </ExcludeFilesFromPackageDependsOn>

</PropertyGroup>

<Target Name="_ExcludeAzureDlls">

    <ItemGroup>

        <AzureFiles Include="@(FilesForPackagingFromProject)"

                    Exclude="@(FilesForPackagingFromProjectWithNoAzure)" />

        <ExcludeFromPackageFiles Include="@(AzureFiles)">

            <FromTarget>_ExcludeAzureEnvironmentDlls</FromTarget>

        </ExcludeFromPackageFiles>

    </ItemGroup>

</Target>

taken from : http://pastebin.com/6BFehAG3

 

here is a MSDN FAQ about Web Deployment http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee942158.aspx it also helped abit

Web Deployement in TFS2012

Web Deployment in VS2012 relies on the new Publish framework and the use of publish profiles.
using these profile gives us the ability to create different publishing for different environments.

all that is nice and well and work splendid with the VS2012, but what with my Builds?

We have 2 options:

1. Add to Build Definition, Process->Advanced->MSBuild Arguments "/p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=<Publish Profile Name>"
2. Add the following lines to a project configuration

<DeployOnBuild>True</DeployOnBuild>
<PublishProfile>Deploy2</PublishProfile>

Using option 2 works better with multiple websites in the same solution

Also for File System Publish update publish profile like this, because of a bug in the build:

<publishUrl>$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\Deployment\</publishUrl>

$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory) - the location of the pubxml in the project properties

RoboCopy Exit Codes

During my work at Capito ,i came to a client were wanted a Build-Deploy-Test using Lab build.
the build part worked well but we had a small problem with the deployment scripts.
we were using RoboCopy in the deployment scripts. apparently the return code are very different:

The return code from Robocopy is a bit map, defined as follows:

Hex	Decimal	Meaning if set
0×10	16	Serious error. Robocopy did not copy any files. Either a usage error or an error due to insufficient access privileges on the source or destination directories.
0×08	8	Some files or directories could not be copied (copy errors occurred and the retry limit was exceeded). Check these errors further.
0×04	4	Some Mismatched files or directories were detected. Examine the output log. Some housekeeping may be needed.
0×02	2	Some Extra files or directories were detected. Examine the output log for details.
0×01	1	One or more files were copied successfully (that is, new files have arrived).
0×00	0	No errors occurred, and no copying was done. The source and destination directory trees are completely synchronized.

You can use this in a batch file to report anomalies, as follows:

    if errorlevel 16 echo ***FATAL ERROR*** & goto end
    if errorlevel 15 echo OKCOPY + FAIL + MISMATCHES + XTRA & goto end
    if errorlevel 14 echo FAIL + MISMATCHES + XTRA & goto end
    if errorlevel 13 echo OKCOPY + FAIL + MISMATCHES & goto end
    if errorlevel 12 echo FAIL + MISMATCHES& goto end
    if errorlevel 11 echo OKCOPY + FAIL + XTRA & goto end
    if errorlevel 10 echo FAIL + XTRA & goto end
    if errorlevel 9 echo OKCOPY + FAIL & goto end
    if errorlevel 8 echo FAIL & goto end
    if errorlevel 7 echo OKCOPY + MISMATCHES + XTRA & goto end
    if errorlevel 6 echo MISMATCHES + XTRA & goto end
    if errorlevel 5 echo OKCOPY + MISMATCHES & goto end
    if errorlevel 4 echo MISMATCHES & goto end
    if errorlevel 3 echo OKCOPY + XTRA & goto end
    if errorlevel 2 echo XTRA & goto end
    if errorlevel 1 echo OKCOPY & goto end
    if errorlevel 0 echo No Change & goto end

i found this at http://ss64.com/nt/robocopy-exit.html