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user1094786
user1094786

Reputation: 6800

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?

Upvotes: 14

Views: 29495

Answers (2)

ADM-IT
ADM-IT

Reputation: 4184

The latest projects can be built by:

dotnet build MyWebsite.sln

For more info please refer the microsoft docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-build

Note: Old ASP.NET projects are not supported. Please use MsBuild instead https://stackoverflow.com/a/24063993/1143349.

Upvotes: 0

TrevorBrooks
TrevorBrooks

Reputation: 3840

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:

Specifying the publish profile

You can specify the publish profile by name or by the full path to the .pubxml file, as shown in the following example:

msbuild C:\ContosoUniversity\ContosoUniversity.sln /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=C:\ContosoUniversity\ContosoUniversity\Properties\PublishProfiles\Test.pubxml

Web publish methods supported for command-line publishing

Three publish methods are supported for command line publishing:

  • MSDeploy - Publish by using Web Deploy.

  • Package - Publish by creating a Web Deploy Package. You have to install the package separately from the MSBuild command that creates it.

  • FileSystem - Publish by copying files to a specified folder.

http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/deployment/visual-studio-web-deployment/command-line-deployment

Upvotes: 27

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