How to Automate Publish using Cruise control and MsBuild - msbuild

Question

I tried to automate update, build and Publish using cruise Control, SVN and Ms build . Take update from svn repository and build is working fine but publishing time, in the bin folder only the project dlls are coming , but other dlls like 'system.web' , 'Newtonsoft.Json' , etc and many more dlls are not updating. My 'ccnet.config' file is given :
<cruisecontrol xmlns:cb="urn:ccnet.config.builder" xmlns="http://thoughtworks.org/ccnet/1/8">
<project name="MyProjectBuild" queue="Q1" queuepriority="1">
<sourcecontrol type="svn">
<trunkurl>https://ip/svn//trunk/CruiseControlTest</trunkurl>
<workingdirectory>F:\CruiseControlPOC\src</workingdirectory>
<username>username</username>
<password>password</password>
</sourcecontrol>
<tasks>
<msbuild>
<executable>C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe</executable>
<workingdirectory>F:\CruiseControlPOC\BuildScript\</workingdirectory>
<projectfile>Build.xml</projectfile>
</msbuild>
</tasks>
</project>
</cruisecontrol>
My 'Build.xml' file which 'ccnet.config' refer is given here:
<target name="Run">
<calltarget targets="Compile" />
<calltarget targets="DoPublish" />
</target>
<target name="Compile">
<msbuild projects="..\src\HelloWorld\HelloWorld.sln" />
</target>
<target name="DoPublish">
<msbuild projects="..\src\HelloWorld\HelloWorld\HelloWorld.csproj" targets="_CopyWebApplication;_BuiltWebOutputGroupOutput" properties="OutDir=..\Output\;WebProjectOutputDir=..\..\..\Publish\HelloWorldSite\;"> </msbuild>
<copy sourcefiles="..\Output\" destinationfolder="..\Publish\HelloWorldSite\bin\"> </copy>
</target>
Can anyone tell how to use copy command so as to copy build dlls from Output folder to Publish/bin folder , or is there any other to Publish files using MsBuild and Cruise Control. Thanks

Answer 1

You could add another task after your MSBuild task in the ccnet.config to call a Power Shell script after the build like so:
<exec>
<executable>C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe</executable>
<baseDirectory>D:\Tools</baseDirectory>
<buildArgs>-File "D:\Tools\ProgramNamePostBuildTasks.ps1"</buildArgs>
<buildTimeoutSeconds>600</buildTimeoutSeconds>
</exec>
Then in your powershell script you could use xcopy to copy files where ever you want. If you are going to copy the files to a server, you will need to map a connection to the server first. But here is a simple example of how the powershell script will look:
del "D:\Binfolder\*.*"
xcopy "D:\OutputDirectory\ProgramX.dll" "D:\BinFolder\"