msbuild target package not found

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Published on 2010-04-09T12:39:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 12:43 UTC
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I want to package my VS2010 web application project ready for deployment with msdeploy. On development machine I can do this using: MSBuild.exe "C:\path\to\WebApp.csproj" /target:package

But on my build server I get this error: error MSB4057: The target "package" does not exist in the project.

What am I missing on the build server?

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