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Jeff S
Jeff S

Reputation: 451

Visual Studio 2010 Publish Profiles -- Where are they stored?

We have set up a few Publish Profiles that are used to deploy web apps to various servers, and it all works great with 1-click deployment.

However, we find that even though the entire solution is under source control (SVN), the profiles do not seem to be carried over, so we need to re-create the profiles on each developer's machine manually.

It seems that since the profiles exist only for the solution currently loaded, that they must be stored in the solution files somewhere. But they do not carry over when someone else does an update to pull down the code.

I'm guessing that whatever file they are in is one that we aren't covering in the source control project, but I haven't been able to figure out which one.

Someone must know where the Publish Profiles are stored. Is there any way to copy them from machine-to-machine so that we don't have to retype them for each developer?

Upvotes: 45

Views: 16472

Answers (4)

Keith Hoffman
Keith Hoffman

Reputation: 608

On my Visual Studio 2010 install for a Web Site project, these files are under App_Date\PublishProfiles.

Upvotes: 0

Richard Szalay
Richard Szalay

Reputation: 84744

In the interest of keeping SO up to date, as of VS2012 (or VS2010 with Azure SDK 1.7+) publish profiles are now stored at Properties\PublishProfiles\$(ProfileName).pubxml for Web Applications and App_Data\PublishProfiles\$(ProfileName).pubxml for Websites.

They are also now MSBuild files and are expected to define properties as documented How to: Edit Deployment Settings in Publish Profile (.pubxml) Files

Upvotes: 18

SilverlightFox
SilverlightFox

Reputation: 33538

The reason I had this problem was due to .user files: I noticed the settings were being saved in Properties/PublishProfiles/$(ProfileName).pubxml but the actual credentials needed for deployment were saved in .user files that were being excluded from source control.

Upvotes: 1

Michael Edenfield
Michael Edenfield

Reputation: 28338

The file name is actually going to be $(ProjectName).Publish.xml, and should be in the same folder as your .csproj file. If you enable the "Show All Files" option in Solution Explorer it will appear, and you can include it in your project from there. That will get it into source control.

One thing to be careful of: VS won't auto-check-out this file if you attempt to change and save the profile settings, but it won't throw an error either. There's a warning in one of the Output windows about it, if you pay attention; otherwise it will just look like it's ignoring your changes.

Upvotes: 37

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