How Stop Team Build from Precompiling

Question

I've got an ASP.NET website project in my Solution, in Visual Studio 2010. I'm using TFS 2010 to build the Solution. The website is getting precompiled (no .cs files). What / where do I make changes to stop the site from getting precompiled during build? I suppose it's using MSBUILD, and I've already made manual tweaks the build project file to deploy site after a build. So I'm really hoping there's a switch somewhere that tells the system not to precompile during a TFS build.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I recently had this problem. Though I wanted the automated build to perform the build, I didn't want that precompiled version shipped. I wanted the full source to be shipped. To accomplish this, when I modified my TFSBuild.proj file to transport the files I used the Sources folder instead of the $(OutDir) folder. This way the site still got precompiled into the $(OutDir) and would properly fail if there was a problem, but the version transported to the website itself would be the actual .vb and .cs files themselves.

Note: The reason I want the source files for the website rather than the precompiled version is that the sites covered in my automated build frequently undergo changes to individual pieces and need to be immediately updateable as stand alone items. This is a requirement of the business more than a requirement of the technology.