Specifying precompilation target directory on the command line

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I have a VS2005 Web Site that's giving me some trouble.

Our process model requires that all shipped applications be compiled on a
dedicated compile box, straight from version control, without human
intervention.

The guts of it is a batch file that checks out the source from version
control, then does a call to a build batch file, that is responsible for
doing the compile.

For websites, what we want to do is to create a precompiled version of
the website in a directory structure parallel to that created by the
check-out.

The problem: the web site accesses a COM dll, and when I run the
aspnet_compiler, I get errors:

aspnet_compiler -p Project -v / Project-published
"CS0246: The type or namespace name ... could not be found".

OTOH, if I run msbuild, I do not get that error:

msbuild project\project.sln

Which would be fine, except that when I run msbuild, it places the
precompiled version into folder that is specified in Property Pages of
the project, and it restricts that to an absolute path.

What I would prefer is a way to tell the aspnet_compiler to use a
different target directory, by specifying an argument on the msbuild
command line.

But I've not been able to figure how to do that out.

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like our club don't really get organized. They just sort of happen.
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