Publish Web Deploy using VS Code

Question

In Visual Studio, I use the \"publish web\" feature to do some web.config transforms, and publish a WebAPI project to our server. The publishing is done using Web Deploy.

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Answer 1

In order to publish using MSBuild you need to use the following command:

msbuild  /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=

• You can point to a solution, this will publish ALL the projects that includes a valid Publish Profile:

  msbuild \MySolution.sln /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=Test
  

• You can point to a specific project like this:

  msbuild \Project1\MyProj.csproj /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=Test
  

• In both cases you can also specify use the full path to the .pubxml file:

  msbuild \MySolution.sln /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=\PublishProfiles\Test.pubxml
  

In fact the *.pubxml files are MSBuild scripts, so you can interact with it like you do with any other MSBuild script, for example you can replace the properties from the command line like this:

Test.pubxml

    
        FileSystem
        Release
        Any CPU
        
        False
        C:\Deploy\MyProject\
        True
    


    msbuild \MySolution.sln /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=\PublishProfiles\Test.pubxml /p:publishUrl:"D:\DifferentPath\DifferentFolder\"

You can use these commands from your continuous integration server or any other build scripts.

Additional information:

Command Line Deployment