MSBuild target package not found

Question

I want to package my VS2010 web application project ready for deployment with msdeploy. On development machine I can do this using:

MSBuild.exe \"C:\\path\\t         


        

Answer 1

I experienced the same issue. Ended up resolving by adding this:

<PropertyGroup>
<VisualStudioVersion Condition="'$(VisualStudioVersion)' == ''">10.0</VisualStudioVersion>
<VSToolsPath Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' == ''">$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)</VSToolsPath>
</PropertyGroup>

<Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />

<Import Project="$(VSToolsPath)\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' != ''" />

<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="false" />

to my .csproj fiie.

Answer 2

I just got this working without installing VS2010 by following these steps on the build server:

1. If .NET Framework 4 isn't installed, install it
2. Install the Web Deployment tool from http://www.iis.net/download/webdeploy
3. From the C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0 folder on your dev machine copy the "Web" and "Web Applications" folders to the equivalent directory on your build server.

This seems to work for me

Answer 3

To solve this problem install Visual Studio 2010 on the build server and make sure you installed Visual Web Developer feature.

Answer 4

Also consider using msbuild with version, corresponding to Web Deployment tool version. I have faced same problem as the OP. The solution was to change msbuild from 4.5 to 4.0 on buildServer.

Answer 5

I know it's an old question, but I recently ran into the same issue and none of the answers helped. I was missing following file on my build server:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio
    \v11.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets

It is imported by:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio
    \v11.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets

Hope this helps someone like me :)

Answer 6

You may install MSBuild.Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.targets package. No need to manually copy targets to build server.