Breaking MsBuild package & deploy into separate MsBuild and MsDeploy commands

Question

I\'m having a few problems breaking out an MsBuild package+deploy command into two separate commands. (I need to do this to pass additional parameters to MsDeploy).

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Answer 1

You are able to specify the -setParam:name='',value='' flag when calling the MyProject.deploy.cmd file that is created when you generate a Package from a web project. The cmd is a friendly wrapper around msdeploy.exe, so you have no need to specify all the rest of the defaults.

Here's the details: http://evolutionarydeveloper.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/specifying-environment-variables-at.html