Is there any way to call custom code when publishing?

Question

We have quite a large site now, build in C#/Asp.Net. We\'ve got two publishing profiles, one for Staging and one for Production. They have been made using standard Web Dep

Answer 1

Although I haven't tested it out there is some direction here

• Post Publish Events
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms366724.aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7z253716.aspx (MSBuild Tasks)
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t9883dzc.aspx (Create a custom MSBuild Task(

Real simple example:

<Target Name="BeforePublish" BeforeTargets="MSDeployPublish">
  <Exec Command="D:\Pre.bat" />
</Target>
<Target Name="AfterPublish" AfterTargets="MSDeployPublish">
  <Exec Command="D:\Post.bat" />
</Target>