TeamCity publish using Visual Studio 2015

Question

I've read many articles on publishing from TeamCity using various versions of Visual Studio. I'm currently using v.9.1.7 of TeamCity and Visual Studio 2015.

I have my 3 build steps on check-in:

Clean & Rebuild
Unit Test
Publish

When I check in my files I get a Tests Passed success message:

I can tell from here something isn't right as I'm expecting it to say something about publishing. When I look at the Build Log I see the following:

[12:48:22][API\API.sln] Publish [12:48:22][Publish] MSBuild [12:48:22][MSBuild] API\API\API.csproj: Build target: Publish [12:48:22][API\API\API.csproj] _DeploymentUnpublishable

My Publish Build Step is setup this way:

In my API project in Visual Studio I can publish to the correct location on the network. Here is my publish profile:

I'm not sure what I'm missing. I'm expecting the Publishing build step to work like when I click the Build->Publish menu item in Visual Studio.

I'm guessing that I'm missing something or misunderstanding what the publishing build step is supposed to do.

Any help is appreciated.

Not sure this will fix the problem, but the 'targets' field in your publish step should have the targets separated by a space or semicolon according to the comment e.g. `Rebuild;Publish` — Electric Sheep, May 23 '16 at 14:41

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

I was able to get it to work after days and days of searching. I found part of the answer here on Stack Overflow. The trick was to get it to work from the MSBuild Command Line:

C:\TFS\project\myProject\APIproject>msbuild apiproject.csproj /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile="Properties\PublishProfiles\DEV.pubxml" /p:VisualStudioVersion=14.0

Once I got this running several times I was able to create a Build Step in Team City (see this question/answer) and I set the following:

Build file path: <location of the apiproject.csproj>
MSBuild version: Microsoft Build Tools 2015
MSBuild ToolsVersion: 14.0
Run platform: x86
Command Line Parameters: /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile= "C:\TFS\API\API\Properties\PublishProfiles\DEV.pubxml" /p:VisualStudioVersion=14.0

where do I set the "Build file path"? – Nitin Sawant Dec 13 '19 at 07:10 — Nitin Sawant, Dec 13 '19 at 07:10

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 14 '16 at 13:49

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IIRC, publishing from TeamCity requires certain files or alternatively VS installed on the build agent (which really isn't recommendable). Have you copied the necessary files to the build agent?

answered May 14 '16 at 13:49

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What is IIRC? Right now everything is on my local machine. So technically I have VS where TC is. Once I get this all dialed in I do plan on moving it to it's own box. – webdad3 May 14 '16 at 13:54

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 23 '16 at 11:07

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Where are artifacts location defined. And you can use Tentacles for publishing build into various environments. I guess, you need to look towards artifacts configurations.

answered May 23 '16 at 11:07

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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You can use MSBuild runner to Deploy your Application/API

Add Command line parameter :

/t:Clean /p:DeployOnBuild=true /t:build /t:publish /p:PublishProfile=C:\_works\teamcity\publishprofiles\Publiush_Profile.pubxml /p:VisualStudioVersion=12.0

PublishPrfile URL should be your publish profile path.

This will work for you.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered May 24 '16 at 06:02

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered May 23 '16 at 19:58

VS will probably find your publish profile with just the name, like: /p:DeployOnBuild=true;/p:PublishProfile=DEV; very useful if you run more than one build agent.

And if you're deploying to an IIS you might need to add AllowUntrustedCertificate=true;

TeamCity publish using Visual Studio 2015

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