Two New MSDN Visual How To's: Automating WSP Creation with MSBuild and Multiple auth Providers

Two more Visual How To's are up on MSDN based off two popular articles on my blog.

The first one is based off the process I like to use where developers can leverage something such as MSBuild to automatically create WSP files every time the project is built (original blog article here):

MSDN Visual How To: Automating Solution Package Creation for Windows SharePoint Services by Using MSBuild
Learn how to use MSBuild to automatically generate solution package files for Windows SharePoint Services.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc441431.aspx

The second one is based off the painful process in setting up your site to leverage multiple authentication providers (ie: Windows Authentication & FBA) to access the same site collection (original blog post here):

MSDN Visual How To: Configuring Multiple Authentication Mechanisms with Alternate Access Mappings in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Learn how to configure a site collection with two entry points that use different authentication mechanisms in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc441429.aspx

Technorati Tags: sharepoint,wss,authentication provider,msbuild,wsp

posted on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:10 AM

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# re: Two New MSDN Visual How To's: Automating WSP Creation with MSBuild and Multiple auth Providers 4/16/2008 9:38 PM Mark

Hi Andrew

In light of the video about using MSBuild to build .wsp packages what is your view on using the MIcorosft VSEWSS 1.1 extension? I have been using it for a publishing site and by and large it seems to be helpful but there are a few well known issues which also can make it quite painful.

Cheers

# re: Two New MSDN Visual How To's: Automating WSP Creation with MSBuild and Multiple auth Providers 4/16/2008 10:45 PM AC [MVP MOSS]

Mark-
The VSeWSS are something quite a few people like, but then there's the other side ot them. I'm personally not a fan as I find them too limiting and the WSP View tool window isn't intuitive to me. Also frustrating having to go between the Solution Explorer tool window and WSP View tool window when building a project.

# re: Two New MSDN Visual How To's: Automating WSP Creation with MSBuild and Multiple auth Providers 8/20/2009 7:55 AM Saurabh Kumar Singh

Hi,

I am creating a WSP solution file for one of my WebPart project. I want to deploy my resource files under 80/WPRESOURCES directory instead of 12 Hives and application 80/resource directory but unable to create manifest and ddf files for it.
Do you have you any idea about it ???

Note: If i am using <ApplicationResourceFile> tag in manifest then it creates my deployment folder under 80/resources directory and if using <ClassResources> in manifest then it creates my deployment folder structure under 12 hive directory.
Please suggest me...

Thank you,
Saurabh Kumar Singh

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