New Post: Try to create a Virtual Directory in a subdirectory

Hi,

Many thanks for your answer and sorry for the delay. I was waiting to test your suggestion (doing a custom target) but was on another subject until now.

I have successfully created a target to deploy one web app in a virtual directory with a folder hierarchy, but have an issue when trying to deploy several web app in the same deployment project.

Here is a part of my .btdfproj file :

<ItemGroup>
    <VDir Include="*">
      <VDirName>Employees</VDirName>
      <VDirLocation>..\WS\Employees</VDirLocation>
    </VDir>
    <WebAppList Include="*">
      <WebAppPath>/Employees/Level1/MySvc</WebAppPath>
      <WebAppLocation>..\WS\Employees\Level1\MySvc</WebAppLocation>
      <AppPool>MyAppPool</AppPool>
    </WebAppList>
    <WebAppList Include="*">
      <WebAppPath>/Employees/Level1/MySecondarySvc</WebAppPath>
      <WebAppLocation>..\WS\Employees\Level1\MySecondarySvc</WebAppLocation>
      <AppPool>MyAppPool</AppPool>
    </WebAppList>
  </ItemGroup>

And the .targets :

<Target Name="CreateWebApp">
       <CreateItem Include="%(WebAppList.WebAppLocation)">
      <Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="WebAppPhysicalLocation" />
    </CreateItem>
    
     <Exec Command="&quot;$(AppCmd)&quot; add app /site.name:&quot;$(VDirRootCreation)&quot; /path:%(WebAppList.WebAppPath) /physicalPath:@(WebAppPhysicalLocation->'%(FullPath)')"/>
  </Target>

I don't have BTDF error, but an issue in IIS (web app don't appears (given path's format is not valid).
I think it is because the CreateItem stores the two locations concatenated and not one after the other.

In fact, I don't really know how to handle a collection of values and didn't found a doc on this.
Maybe you have a clue?
Else, I think I will do it with a powershell script.

Can I also ask you the meaning of Include="*" ? (it was required but I don't know why!)

Thanks!