ApplicationFiles folder missing when ClickOnce publish with command line

Question

ClickOnce publish with IDE works normal.

When trying to publish via MSBuild command line

%MSBUILD% /target:publish /p:Configuration=Release;PublishDi         


        

Answer 1

How do I publish via command line same ClickOnce settings which IDE uses

Some features are done by Visual-Studio and not by the MSBuild command line. So the click-once-deployment behaves differently when it's executed from the command-line.

If you want to publish via command line same ClickOnce settings which IDE uses, you can use a custom target to achieve it. Edit your project(csproj) file (right click project node -> unload project -> edit xxx.csproj) and add the following code in it:

  
    D:\Test\Projects\ClickOncePublish\ClickOncePublish
    $(ProjLocation)\bin\Debug
    $(ProjLocationReleaseDir)\app.publish
    D:\Test\Publish\
  


  

    

    
      
      
    


    
    
  

  
    
    
  

Then you can build the project with the MSBuild command line:

msbuild /target:test

After execute the build command, all the expected files are publish via command line same ClickOnce settings which IDE uses.

Note: You should change the value of ProjLocation to the path of your project.