create a deployment package for Service Fabric that includes all artifacts necessary to run the designed workflows at runtime

Question

How to create a deployment package for Service Fabric that includes all artifacts necessary to run the designed workflows at run-time?

Answer 1

To create a Service Fabric application package you need to run the "Package" target on the sfproj file.

msbuild app.sfproj /t:Package

This will create a "pkg" directory next to the sfproj file with all the necessary files.

Answer 2

Another option is to package a service fabric application by building a solution in release mode (for example). This section can be added to the .sfproj file to achieve the goal:

<Target Name="ReleaseAfterBuild" AfterTargets="AfterBuild" Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Release' ">
   <MSBuild Projects="$(ProjectPath)" Targets="Package" />
</Target>