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Pure Krome

09 Feb, 2015 05:58 AM

Hi,

during our Install build step, we use node to do some requirejs and gulp stuff. Part of this process, is that it creates 2 files

-application-<someHash>.js - application-<someHas>.css

so it creates those two files, with some random hash in the middle. Works great ... until deployment time :(

Is there a way to get MSDeploy to know that those two new, dynamically created files, need to be included in the deploy process?

eg. copy those two files to ~\Content\public\.

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 09 Feb, 2015 06:14 AM

   

   Take a look at this: http://www.appveyor.com/docs/deployment/web-deploy#including-exclud...

   Also, these two thread might help too:
   http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/problems/1429-afterbuild-not-r...
   http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/problems/853-adding-files-to-a...

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2. 2 Posted by Pure Krome on 09 Feb, 2015 07:06 AM

   

   Ack! Delving into the worst part of Visual Studio :: the xml proj or sln files :(

   /me hobbles off, dejected ...

   back!

   Oh wow. it worked! So this is what I did for all those reading this from their google searching..

   <Target Name="BeforeBuild">
       <ItemGroup>
         <Content Include="Content\public\*.css" />
         <Content Include="Content\public\*.js" />
       </ItemGroup>
     </Target>
   

   and that picks up the application.<hash>.css and js file that was made during the node install funky pew pew step.

   

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3. Pure Krome closed this discussion on 09 Feb, 2015 07:07 AM.