How to publish website using command prompt

MS provide a command msbuild which is really helpful to published build on some specific location.
Before publishing web site, we need to create a publish profile using VS.

Note: the below contents requires to have VS 2012 (or VS2010 for that matter) and the Azure SDK on top of that. The features were not included in the RTM drop of VS2012.

After creating a publish profile in VS the following are created:

• Start Visual Studio command prompt
• A publish profile (.pubxml file) under App_Data/PublishProfiles
• A website.publishproj in the root of the website

For eg:-

msbuild test.Web.csproj /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=Target

msbuild "G:\XXX\XX\XX\XX\test.Web\test.Web.csproj" /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=Target

msbuild test.Web.csproj /t:Rebuild /p:outdir="f:\target\" /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform="Any CPU"

1. 'test.web.csproj': Is a project solution. Before excuting command we need to navigate to solution path using cd command.
2. '/p:DeployOnBuild=true': Set property true, in order to deploye once buid completed.
3. '/p:PublishProfile': Is a published profile name that we may need to deployed on mentioned location

Another way is to create buid.xml file.

Create a build.xml file thats look like below

Start Visual Studio command prompt

Run msbuild build.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTargets="Build">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <Build>$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\Build</Build>
    <ProjectFile>MyProject.csproj</ProjectFile> 
    <ProjectName>MyProjectNameInVisualStudio</ProjectName>
    <CopyTo>$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\CopyTo</CopyTo>
  </PropertyGroup> 

  <Target Name="Build"> 
    <RemoveDir Directories="$(Build)"/>  
    <MSBuild Projects="$(ProjectFile)" Properties="Configuration=Release;OutputPath=$(Build);OutDir=$(Build)/"></MSBuild>  
    <Exec Command="robocopy.exe  $(Build)\_PublishedWebsites\$(ProjectName) $(CopyTo) /e /is
      if %errorlevel% leq 4 exit 0 else exit %errorlevel%"/>    
  </Target>

</Project>

Thanks