Publishing ClickOnce application with NANT script - visual-studio-2010

Question

My WPF application is deployed with ClickOnce.
In Visual Studio I open "Project properties / Publish".
There I have:
Publish location
Publish URL
Version
Signature
The problem is, that I have to publish every version for test and production.
The difference between them are properties publish location and publish URL. Currently I have to execute the process twice, while changing the values before publishing for production.
So the result of pressing publish is a folder containing folder "ApplicationFiles", the application manifest file and a setup.exe.
Then i decided to automate this process using NANT.
I build/publish the application first for testing (here i set the .csproj file location, publish folder and application varsion)
<target name="BuildTestApplication" depends="Clean" description="Build">
<echo message="Building..." />
<exec program="${msbuildExe}" workingdir="." verbose="true">
<arg value="${projectFile}" />
<arg value="/target:Clean;Publish" />
<arg value="/p:PublishDir=${testPublishFolder}" />
<arg value="/p:ApplicationVersion=${version}" />
<arg value="/p:Publisher="${publisherName}"" />
</exec>
<echo message="Built" />
</target>
With this I found out that build does not set the publisher. Plus I need to change the provider URL, since the application is also installed via internet (different URLs for test and production). So i did:
<target name="UpdateTestApplication" depends="BuildTestApplication" description="Update">
<echo message="Updating..." />
<exec program="${mageExe}" workingdir="." verbose="true">
<arg value="-Update" />
<arg value="${testPublishFolder}/EdpClient.application" />
<arg value="-ProviderUrl" />
<arg value=""${testPublishUrl}"" />
<arg value="-Publisher" />
<arg value=""${publisherName}"" />
</exec>
<echo message="Updated" />
</target>
With this I have updated the application manifest file with correct values (Publisher and ProviderUrl)...
I do the same for production build, meaning i build the application to another folder and update it with different ProviderUrl and add Publisher, since it has to be included in every mage update...
Now the problem is with setup.exe file.
Setup.exe is generated at build and it takes the values from the .csproj file.
Considering all of the above I have three issues:
1.
Is there a way of building the application with the correct parameters, so the setup.exe would contain the correct values?
2.
Also how would I update Assembly information (parameter version) before build? When publishing from VS i need to update it on "Probject properties / Application / Assembly Information"
3.
I noticed that when Publishing from VS the application manifest file is also generated in the "Application Files" folder, while publishing with MSBUILD it is not. Why is that?
Thank you in advance and best regards, no9
EDIT:
I fixed the problem #2 like so:
<!--UPDATE ASSEMBLY INFORMATION BEFORE BUILD-->
<target name="UpdateAssemblyInfo">
<asminfo output="${assemblyInfoFile}" language="CSharp">
<imports>
<import namespace="System" />
<import namespace="System.Reflection" />
<import namespace="System.Resources" />
<import namespace="System.Runtime.CompilerServices" />
<import namespace="System.Runtime.InteropServices" />
<import namespace="System.Windows" />
</imports>
<attributes>
<attribute type="AssemblyTitleAttribute" value="some value" />
<attribute type="AssemblyDescriptionAttribute" value="some value" />
<attribute type="AssemblyConfigurationAttribute" value="some value" />
<attribute type="AssemblyCompanyAttribute" value="some value" />
<attribute type="AssemblyProductAttribute" value="some value" />
<attribute type="AssemblyVersionAttribute" value="some value" />
<attribute type="AssemblyFileVersionAttribute" value="some value" />
<attribute type="AssemblyCopyrightAttribute" value="some value" />
<attribute type="AssemblyTrademarkAttribute" value="some value" />
<attribute type="AssemblyCultureAttribute" value="some value" />
<attribute type="CLSCompliantAttribute" value="boolean value" />
<attribute type="ComVisibleAttribute" value="boolean value" />
</attributes>
</asminfo>
<echo file="${assemblyInfoFile}" append="true">
[assembly: ThemeInfo(
ResourceDictionaryLocation.None, //where theme specific resource dictionaries are located
//(used if a resource is not found in the page,
// or application resource dictionaries)
ResourceDictionaryLocation.SourceAssembly //where the generic resource dictionary is located
//(used if a resource is not found in the page,
// app, or any theme specific resource dictionaries)
)]
</echo>
<echo message="Updated" />
</target>
Meaning I override Assembly.info file before build and add relevant values.
And the problem #3 like so:
<!--COPY APPLICATION MANIFEST TO APPLICATIONFILES FOLDER-->
<target name="CopyTestApplicationManifestToApplicationFilesFolder" depends="Dependency target name" description="Update">
<echo message="Copying..." />
<copy
file="source file"
tofile="target file" />
<echo message="Copied" />
</target>

Answer 1

I was able to create tasks that properly generated the assets you mentioned in your question (setup.exe,application folder, etc.) without having to explicitly sign manifest.
the "clean_and_publish_application" task does the following
Clean the project
Rebuild the project
Publish the project **Here i provide several parameters specifying my publish url, BootstrapperSDKPath,Application Version, and Application Revision
<target name="clean_and_publish_application" description="Build the application.">
<echo message="Clean the build directory"/>
<msbuild project ="${src.dir}\${target.assembly.name}.csproj">
<arg value="/property:Configuration=Debug;outdir=bin\Debug" />
<arg value="/t:clean" />
</msbuild>
<echo message="Rebuild the application"/>
<msbuild project ="${src.dir}\${target.assembly.name}.csproj">
<arg value="/property:Configuration=Debug;outdir=bin\Debug" />
<arg value="/t:rebuild" />
</msbuild>
<echo message="Publish the application"/>
<msbuild project ="${src.dir}\${target.assembly.name}.csproj">
<arg value="/p:publishurl=${publish.url};
GenerateBootstrapperSdkPath=
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.0A\Bootstrapper\;
ApplicationVersion=${app.version};
ApplicationRevision=${app.revision}" />
<arg value="/t:publish" />
</msbuild>
</target>
The BootstrapperSdkPath property is required for the creation of the setup.exe file. I hard coded the location because it doesn't change. MSBuild is looking for a setup.bin file within that directory.
The ApplicationVersion property is formatted as for example 2.0.0.%2a
The ApplicationRevision property is formatted as a number for example 24 (these values are the Publish Version we see in visual studio. I never actually update the AssemplyInfo.cs file at all.)
Any property you see listed in the .csproj file can be passed as an argument for msbuild. I found this documentation very helpful MSBuild Command-Line Reference
The above task does everything you need EXCEPT actually copy the files to your publish url (Still looking for the answer for this). So I just manually copy all the files from the app.config directory the publish creates
<target name="copy_src">
<echo message="Copying app.config folder"/>
<copy todir="${publish.url}" overwrite="true" failonerror="true">
<fileset basedir="${src.dir}\${app.config.location}">
<include name="**" />
</fileset>
</copy>
</target>
I'm running these scripts in Team City. Because I used the publish target, I didn't have to worry about signing any manifests. Also, I use the msbuild task from the NAnt.Contrib.Tasks.dll which you can download here NAntContrib