Silverlight xap file not being copied to ClientBin on Build Server

Question

We\'re developing a ASP.Net Web Application project that has a Silverlight 2.0 component. We\'ve referenced the silverlight project in the web application properties, and th

Answer 1

I just had a similar issue where some files weren't being built/moved to my dev server. The issue ended up being permission as I manually deleted a folder. For some reason, the Network Service account and permissions weren't being inherited by the newly recreated folder.

Answer 2

I found the following tag in my project file fixed it:

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

e.g.

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

Maybe VSToolsPath is set before this point on my local machine, but not on the build server.

Answer 3

Sorted!

Not quite sure why, but it turns out we had an out-of-date version of Microsoft.WebApplications.targets on the build server - the version we had didn't have the CopySilverlightApplications task in it. To fix the problem, I copied the two files from the C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\WebApplications folder to the same location on the build server. Now everything works as it should.

Now if only I could find out which installer should have updated those files...