Invoke a publish from msbuild for visual studio 2012

Question

For VS2010 and before I was utilizing Web Deployment Projects (WDP) to help package my website for production deployment. I had a MSBuild script that compiled the solution in r

Answer 1

It appears that there are now some other options for publishing from the command-line. Specifically something along the lines of the following seems possible now with some RC updates to Visual Studio 2012.

msbuild mywap.csproj /p:DeployOnBuild=true;PublishProfile=MyProfileName

For more details check out this post by Scott Hanselman and check out the section on Publishing.