R – In a sharepoint .wsp file how to move a folder full of files into the sharepoint filesystem

Maybe this will help: http://www.codeplex.com/wspbuilder/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=43125

Ultimately, I think you gain a lot of flexibility by building your own wsp files by using a tool like NANT.

In more recent versions of TeamCity...

In the build definition you can identify artifacts which can be copied/zipped. Artifacts can then be downloaded manually or referenced from another build (Artifact Dependency).

You can setup a 'build configuration' to do your deployment directly from artifacts produced by your ci build.

• Create a build to do your deployment
• Build Step
  • Run: Executable with parameters
  • Command executable: .bat file (make sure it as part of the ci build artifacts generated)
  • Command parameters: whatever parameters your patch files needs
• Dependencies
  • Add New Artifact dependency
  • Depend on: select the ci build you want to deploy
  • GetArtifacts from: Last successful build
  • Artifact rules: +:**/*.*

So, given artifacts (like your batch file) are in the CI build... You now have a 'deploy' build. When you run it (manually or setup a Build Trigger) it will copy all the CI build artifacts to it's working directory (Artifact Dependency) and then run your batch file to do the deployment.

Pretty slick.

note: just make sure that the account running the TeamCity BuildAgent has permissions to do all the deployment stuff.

Hope this helps somebody as it took me a while to sort this out ;)