Visual Studio 2010 Deployment Project supported by MSBuild

Question

Do you know if there is anyway to deploy a VS2010 Deployment Project using msbuild? Is is supported? I know it was not for a long while but I couldn't find is something change.

If not, is WIX the only approach?

Answer 1

You can build a deploy project - i assume you mean a vdproj? But not directly with msbuild. You have to wrap an exec target around devenv.exe. So you'd have to have visual studio on your build machine.