MSBuild target PipelinePreDeployCopyAllFilesToOneFolder cannot be found when deploying

Question

Deploying a Web Application Project from VS2010 RTM causes an error in MSBuild. It complains that the PipelinePreDeployCopyAllFilesToOneFolder target cannot be found.

Is there any way to further diagnose this?

Thank you.

Answer 1

I had the same problem and when I looked in the .csproj file for my web application I had the following lines...

<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="'$(Solutions.VSVersion)' == '8.0'" />
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="'$(Solutions.VSVersion)' == '9.0'" />

I guess this happened since I had recently upgraded from VS2008 to VS2010. So it looks like the during the conversion process it got all screwed up. To fix it I just replaced those lines with ...

<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" />

After that everything worked as it should.