ClickOnce, MSBuild and multiple servers.

[Guest]

We're currently getting ready to deploy an application using ClickOnce.
We'll be placing the deployment on two servers. Because the app.config files
will need to point to different servers, we're using the revision number to
indicate which server it came from.

Currently, this means manually changing the version in the IDE and then
publishing to each server. Is there any way to automate this using MSBuild?
After looking around it appears MSbuild might be able to generate the files
for publishing, but they would then need to be copied to the publish site, is
this correct?

Can you specify the version number in the build?

 

[tbirdsall]

Hi Neil,

I am more familiar with web forms side of things, but I know that you
can dynamically generate the version number at runtime using either the
AssemblyInfoTask, or MSBuild Community Tasks Project's Version Task.

More info on MSBuild Community Tasks Project
http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/

More info on AssemblyInfoTask
http://blogs.msdn.com/msbuild/archive/2006/01/04/509308.aspx

Hope this helps.