How To Publish an ASP.NET Website from a Command Line

Via: http://blogs.msdn.com/securitytools/archive/2009/09/08/how-to-publish-an-asp-net-website-from-a-command-line.aspx (by Syed Aslam Basha)

A batch script to publish an ASP.Net website from the command line – very useful.

@ECHO OFF
set WEB_ROOT=C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mytestsite
set PROJECT_ROOT=D:\Source\website 

echo Publishing site %PROJECT_ROOT% to %WEB_ROOT% 

del /S /Q %WEB_ROOT%\*.* || goto Error
rmdir /S /Q %WEB_ROOT%\ || goto Error
aspnet_compiler -p "%PROJECT_ROOT%" /v /commercesite /d "%WEB_ROOT%" || goto Error 
 
goto Success
:Error
echo Site was not published

goto End

:Success
echo Site published successfully

:End