Building Dependent Projects
If you are using a Web Application Project (WAP) as opposed to a Web site, then there is one major flaw in the process followed by the Microsoft.WebDeployment.targets file. The WAP is never built; it is assumed to have already been built. In the case of this example, if the WebApplication1 project was not built and you executed the command msbuild WebApplication1_01.csproj_deploy.wdproj the result would be what is shown in Figure 9-5.
Figure 9-5. Web Deployment Project failure
Since the WAP is not being built, the AspNetCompiler task fails because it was unable to load a user control that was contained inside the WAP. In ...
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