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Copper Contributor

Oct 06, 2022

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ASP.NET Bundling + CI/CD - how to handle when a bundled file is deleted or renamed

We are using Azure DevOps to run a CI/CD pipeline to our various environments. We recently encountered an issue where one of the developers re-named a TypeScript file - perfectly reasonable thing to ...

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Lohith_GN
Oct 07, 2022
Thanks for the details.

Take a look at the task documentation here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/reference/iisweb-app-deployment-on-machine-group-v0?view=azure-pipelines

It has a flag called RemoveAdditionalFilesFlag. Its a boolean flag. According to the flag description from documentation - it is supposed to "Remove Additional Files at Destination". By default the value for this flag is false. So the deployment wont remove any additional files present on the server that was not present in the currently deployed deployment.

I believe this is the flag you are looking for.

Let me know If this works for you.

Hope this helps you.

DarrenMArdex

Copper Contributor

Oct 06, 2022

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. Apologies, wasn't sure what detail I needed to include.

We are using a YAML file to define the pipeline steps. It is deploying to a VM.

Deployment steps are as follows:

- stage: Deploy
  displayName: Deploy to IIS
  dependsOn: Build
  jobs:
  - deployment: DeploytoIIS
    displayName: Deploy the web application to dev environment
    environment:
      name: Development-env-02
      resourceType: VirtualMachine
    strategy:
      runOnce:
        deploy:
          steps:
          - task: DownloadBuildArtifacts@0
            inputs:
              buildType: 'current'
              downloadType: 'specific'
              downloadPath: '$(System.ArtifactsDirectory)'
          - task: IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup@0
            displayName: 'Deploy IIS Website'
            inputs:
              WebSiteName: '$(websiteName)'
              Package: '$(System.ArtifactsDirectory)\**\Zeus.zip'

So maybe there is a clean step we can include?

Lohith_GN

Copper Contributor

Oct 07, 2022

Thanks for the details.

Take a look at the task documentation here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/reference/iisweb-app-deployment-on-machine-group-v0?view=azure-pipelines

It has a flag called RemoveAdditionalFilesFlag. Its a boolean flag. According to the flag description from documentation - it is supposed to "Remove Additional Files at Destination". By default the value for this flag is false. So the deployment wont remove any additional files present on the server that was not present in the currently deployed deployment.

I believe this is the flag you are looking for.

Let me know If this works for you.

Hope this helps you.

DarrenMArdex
Copper Contributor
Oct 09, 2022
That looks to be exactly what I want. Will give it a try, thanks!