How to deploy after a build with TeamCity?

This article explains how to call Microsoft's WebDeploy tool from TeamCity to deploy a web application to a remote web server. I've been using it to deploy to a test web server and run selenium tests on check-in.

http://www.mikevalenty.com/automatic-deployment-from-teamcity-using-webdeploy/

1. Install WebDeploy
2. Enable Web config transforms
3. Configure TeamCity BuildRunner
4. Configure TeamCity Build Dependencies

The MSBuild arguments that worked for my application were:

/p:Configuration=QA  /p:OutputPath=bin  /p:DeployOnBuild=True  /p:DeployTarget=MSDeployPublish  /p:MsDeployServiceUrl=https://myserver:8172/msdeploy.axd  /p:username=myusername  /p:password=mypassword  /p:AllowUntrustedCertificate=True  /p:DeployIisAppPath=ci  /p:MSDeployPublishMethod=WMSVC

I've written a pretty long blog post on this very topic that may interest you:

http://www.diaryofaninja.com/blog/2010/05/09/automated-site-deployments-with-teamcity-deployment-projects-amp-svn

basically:

• install web deployment projects
• add web deployment project to your solution
• setup the solution configuration manager to have a "Deployment" build configuration
• get team city to use this build switch when running the build
• have a beer and wonder in glory at your automagical awesomenesss

Typically what I do is to create a Wix installer. A Wix project can be build with MsBuild so you should have no problems there.

Also I would recommend looking at the following MsBuild extensions for the automated deployment:

http://www.codeplex.com/MSBuildExtensionPack
http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/

I hope this helps.