At our company we've banned the web site projects and use only the web
application projects for this very reason.
If you have any control over the build process I would recommend your company
takes the same approach.
> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:19:01 -0400
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [NAnt-users] VS2005 Web Projects; still trying
>
> So I have been playing with this some more and I have some more context
> and a new theory. :-)
>
> When you use Visual Studio to add a website from the file system, there
> is no *.[cs|vb]proj file. It's just a directory. And this is how it
> gets written to the VS2005 solution file, like so:
>
> Project("{GUID}") = "C:\...\PMI\", "RootNS.Web.Portal.UI.Search\PMI",
> "{GUID}"
>
> Now, add to that this known "feature" in Windows, where directories are
> read only and you can't effectively change it (BTW, their attrib
> work-around still leaves my directories read-only, but the files are
> fine and all other non-web NAnt solution tasks work flawlessly):
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326549/
>
> When you use the NAnt <solution> task, it uses the solution file to
> figure out what projects to build and where they are located. In the
> case of web projects, it has <map> elements to convert the URLs to
> physical file paths. This is all well and good if you use IIS for your
> web projects.
>
> So here's the part where my "facts" turn to conjecture and hypothesis:
>
> Unfortunately, this seems to break-down when using path-based web
> projects. There is no effective way to use the <map> elements that I
> have found and left to its own devices, NAnt appears to try and "open"
> the directory it finds in the solution where it expects a project.
> Since the directory is read-only, I get the somewhat misleading, but
> perfectly accurate "access denied" error.
>
> Does anyone have any experience using NAnt in general and/or the
> <solution> task in particular to build file-based web site projects in
> Visual Studio 2005?
>
> Tony
>
> Tony Selke wrote:
> > I am converting our MSBuild scripts to NAnt and most of our solutions
> > have been happily compiling using the <solution> task. We do have a
> > handful of ASP.NET applications that need to be compiled as well, but I
> > am having trouble getting this to work. I am using the NAnt 0.86
> > nightly build from 02-10-2008 so that I can get VS2005 support. I am
> > not running IIS and I would prefer not to need to do so on my build server.
> >
> > My simplest example is a “test wrapper” web site that is the testing
> > project for a custom WebPart. This solution has one project that
> > generates a class library (with the web part) and another “project” that
> > is just a web site in a file directory. The project definitions from my
> > solution file are shown below if it helps.
> >
> > So I have been trying the following solution task (hopefully the
> > property names are descriptive enough):
> >
> > <solution configuration="${BuildConfig}" includevsfolders="true"
> > outputdir="${OutputRoot}\${BuildConfig}\${SolutionName}"
> > solutionfile="${SourceRoot}\${SolutionName}.sln" failonerror="true"
> > verbose="${VerboseOutput}">
> > <assemblyfolders>
> > <include name="${ReferenceRoot}\${BuildConfig}" />
> > </assemblyfolders>
> > <!--
> > <webmap>
> > <map url="http://localhost/PMI/${SolutionName}.csproj";
> > path="${SourceRoot}\${SolutionName}\${SolutionName}.csproj"
> > casesensitive="false" />
> > </webmap>
> > -->
> > </solution>
> >
> > I have tried with and without the webmap and I have tried a webmap who’s
> > URL was a file:// pointing to the website directory. I always get the
> > error:
> >
> > Error checking whether
> > 'C:\APS\PMI\Dev\RootNS.Web\RootNS.Web.Portal.UI.Search\PMI' is an
> > enterprise template project.
> > Access to the path
> > 'C:\APS\PMI\Dev\RootNS.Web\RootNS.Web.Portal.UI.Search\PMI' is denied.
> >
> > I don’t believe this “access denied” message, since I am running this as
> > a member of the local administrators group and this same code works fin
> > on all non-ASP.NET solutions. I am more inclined to believe that it is
> > looking for something it can’t find, but what?
> >
> > Am I just doing this entirely all wrong, or is there something subtle I
> > am missing?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Tony
> >
> > <><><><>
> >
> > Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 9.00
> > # Visual Studio 2005
> > Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") =
> > "RootNS.Web.Portal.UI.Search",
> > "RootNS.Web.Portal.UI.Search\RootNS.Web.Portal.UI.Search.csproj",
> > "{44D1F85A-FD4E-43AB-8F65-5CE212313F1B}"
> > ProjectSection(WebsiteProperties) = preProject
> > Debug.AspNetCompiler.Debug = "True"
> > Release.AspNetCompiler.Debug = "False"
> > EndProjectSection
> > EndProject
> > Project("{E24C65DC-7377-472B-9ABA-BC803B73C61A}") = "C:\...\PMI\",
> > "RootNS.Web.Portal.UI.Search\PMI", "{1DDD45BD-976E-4EEE-B943-620724C1BA66}"
> > ProjectSection(WebsiteProperties) = preProject
> > Debug.AspNetCompiler.VirtualPath = "/PMI"
> > Debug.AspNetCompiler.PhysicalPath =
> > "RootNS.Web.Portal.UI.Search\PMI\"
> > Debug.AspNetCompiler.TargetPath = "PrecompiledWeb\PMI\"
> > Debug.AspNetCompiler.Updateable = "true"
> > Debug.AspNetCompiler.ForceOverwrite = "true"
> > Debug.AspNetCompiler.FixedNames = "false"
> > Debug.AspNetCompiler.Debug = "True"
> > Release.AspNetCompiler.VirtualPath = "/PMI"
> > Release.AspNetCompiler.PhysicalPath =
> > "RootNS.Web.Portal.UI.Search\PMI\"
> > Release.AspNetCompiler.TargetPath = "PrecompiledWeb\PMI\"
> > Release.AspNetCompiler.Updateable = "true"
> > Release.AspNetCompiler.ForceOverwrite = "true"
> > Release.AspNetCompiler.FixedNames = "false"
> > Release.AspNetCompiler.Debug = "False"
> > VWDPort = "1939"
> > EndProjectSection
> > EndProject
> >
> > <><><><>
> >
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