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I've seen msbuild commands pass /t:pipelinePreDeployCopyAllFilesToOneFolder as a target. On searching the Internet, I've found many forum and question/answers posts about this target. That said, I've found no official documentation.

  • What does this target do?
  • Where does Microsoft document it?

This target usually goes along with a _PackageTempDir property.

My best guess is that the target and property together mean that, before deployment, copy all files to the specified package temp directory.

Shaun Luttin
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Seems like it's a Web Application specific default target. As mentioned in this answer it is in the following file:

It's actually contained in the file that Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi mentions, which is the Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets file (C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets).

You can check what its content here. (I found a copy on github)

Neither I could find the mentioned target among any documentation. However, there is a documentation of msbuild on github with some fancy figures. Also, there are other documentation fragments on Microsoft's documentation about Default build targets or Common target files.

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