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Nelson Lopes
Nelson Lopes

Reputation: 137

Publish button missing in Visual Studio

I have an ASP.NET C# WebApi project in Visual Studio which I develop for some years now.

Suddenly, the Publish button is missing from the Build menu, so I cannot publish the changes I made.

I already uninstalled and installed again Visual Studio (with different options selected), updated to the last version, reset all settings in Tools > Import and Export Settings and applied General and Web development settings, nothing works.

I tried to install in another computer, and it is there. Tried to export the settings and import in the computer I need to use, and does not work.

Everything apart of this is working.

Do you have any clue what is causing this?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4984

Answers (2)

La'Chelle Luppnow
La'Chelle Luppnow

Reputation: 1

I solved this by updating the .vbproj file. I had to add the Project Type GUIDS: <ProjectTypeGuids>{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{F184B08F-C81C-45F6-A57F-5ABD9991F28F}</ProjectTypeGuids> to the file in tag.

Upvotes: 0

Dermot
Dermot

Reputation: 364

I had the exact same problem. In my case it was self inflicted.

My project file (.csproj) was missing the <ProjectTypeGuids> setting. When I copied one over from another similar project (that had the publish option) the issue was resolved and I could once again Publish from the context menu.

I seem to remember removing the <ProjectTypeGuids> entry to get over another Visual Studio issue that I was experiencing at the time :(

Upvotes: 4

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