Automatically publish web application on build from Visual Studio 2015

Question

Is there any way to automatically have a web application published using a pre-created publish profile on successful build? I don\'t want to have to click the publish icon,

Answer 1

Add the following to your project file:

The value of PublishProfile (Local in the example above) is the name of the publish profile you want to run.

Sources:
https://www.dotnetcatch.com/2017/03/24/publish-webdeploy-automatically-with-vs-build/
https://stackoverflow.com/a/41830433/90287