

- VISUAL STUDIO FOR MAC PUBLISH ASP.NET APPLICATION HOW TO
- VISUAL STUDIO FOR MAC PUBLISH ASP.NET APPLICATION UPDATE
The MSBuild layer is pretty thin, for the most part it just calls dotnet publish. Visual Studio calls MSBuild to do this so that you can have parity with publishing when using Visual Studio or the command line. When you start a publish operation, the publish dialog is closed and then MSBuild is called to start the process. indicates an extension point, we will cover each extension point later in this document.The following image shows a visualization of this process. To create a publish profile in Visual Studio, right click on the project in Solution Explorer and then select Publish. A PowerShell script is called passing in the properties from the publish profile and the location where dotnet publish has placed the files to publish.dotnet publish is called to gather the files to publish to a temporary folder.A PowerShell script is created at Properties\PublishProfiles\profilename.ps1.

VISUAL STUDIO FOR MAC PUBLISH ASP.NET APPLICATION UPDATE
To customize the publish process you would need to update the publish profile, or project file, with custom MSBuild elements. During the publish process MSBuild will call Web Deploy (msdeploy.exe) to transfer the files to the final location. That information is used to determine the files to publish. The project file contains the full list of files as well as their type. vbproj) is used to gather the files that need to be published as well as perform any updates during publish (for example updating web.config). In ASP.NET when you publish a Visual Studio web project MSBuild is used to drive the entire process.
VISUAL STUDIO FOR MAC PUBLISH ASP.NET APPLICATION HOW TO
For an overview of how to publish a web app on ASP.NET Core see Publishing and Deployment. Unless stated otherwise, the instructions in this article are for publishing from Visual Studio. This doc will provide an overview of the changes and instructions on how to customize the publish process. The web publish experience for ASP.NET Core projects has significantly changed from ASP.NET 4.

How Web Publishing In Visual Studio Works ¶
