Build and publish C# .NET Web App via command line
NickName:user1094786 Ask DateTime:2014-06-05T22:46:55

Build and publish C# .NET Web App via command line

I need to be able to generically and separately build and publish C# ASP.NET Web Applications. Ideally, I would like to use MSBuild to build the application, and if that succeeds, I would like to simply publish the site preferably solely with file copy.

Currently, I am able to build web application quite easily with MSBuild, but it is the publishing that is causing confusion. After the build, the binaries sit in the bin folder, but I am not sure what files to copy. What would be a good way to mimic the operations that VS's publish feature does, and still keeping everything generic? 

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TrevorBrooks 2014-06-05T15:16:12

You can invoke the Visual Studio web publish pipeline using the command line, check out this tutorial it shows you step by step how to do it: \n\nSpecifying the publish profile\n\nYou can specify the publish profile by name or by the full path to the .pubxml file, as shown in the following example:\n\nmsbuild C:\\ContosoUniversity\\ContosoUniversity.sln /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=C:\\ContosoUniversity\\ContosoUniversity\\Properties\\PublishProfiles\\Test.pubxml\n\n\nWeb publish methods supported for command-line publishing\n\nThree publish methods are supported for command line publishing:\n\n\nMSDeploy - Publish by using Web Deploy.\nPackage - Publish by creating a Web Deploy Package. You have to install the package separately from the MSBuild command that creates it.\nFileSystem - Publish by copying files to a specified folder.\n\n\nhttp://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/deployment/visual-studio-web-deployment/command-line-deployment",

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