Devenv deployment parameters

Question

I have a report project that I want to script deploying to a development server. I need to just change the TargetServerUrl in the project properties. Is there a way to do this?

i.e.

&devenv.exe RSReports.sln /project Reports\Reports.rptproj /deploy

maybe => properties:TargetServerUrl=http://myserver/ReportServer

Answer 1

I know nothing about report projects but in almost every VS project you can define multiple "Configuration"s (the defaults are Debug and Release). So you can have one target in debug and another in Release mode, and use the command line

devenv /deploy Release RSReports.sln

Another option is to use the msbuild.exe utility to build your project (instead of devenv), and use it's proprerty replacemnet parameter

"c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe" "Full path to soulution" /t:Build /p:Configuration=Release /p:TargetServerUrl=http://myserver/ReportServer