How to include all files in a project when publishing from Powershell

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I'm trying to publish a .Net web app using Powershell. I want to publish "all files in this project" but it only seems to be publishing "only files needed to run this application". When I publish from Visual Studio 2010 it work fine.

Here's my command:

& msbuild "$WebProjectFile" /verbosity:minimal "/t:ResolveReferences;_CopyWebApplication;publish" /p:Configuration=Release /p:OutDir="$PublishPath\bin\" /p:WebProjectOutputDir="$PublishPath"

Any ideas how I can do this?

any final solution with full source code about it?

Kiquenet
– Kiquenet

2012-06-06 06:27:40 +00:00
Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 6:27 — Kiquenet
– Kiquenet, Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 6:27

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:48:01Z

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Some notes since I am not sure exactly what is not working: - CopyLocal set to true for all your references - Add a specific copy files to the your build script

<Copy SourceFiles="@(ProjectBinFiles)" DestinationFolder="$(StageBin)\%ProjectBinFiles.RecursiveDir)" />

Below is a similar question about not all files copying:

MSBuild target _CopyWebApplication does not copy all necessary files to the bin folder

Not sure if any of this helps.

-Adam

[Edit: trying to undo my edit]

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:48

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answered Feb 23, 2012 at 0:45

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Trev Over a year ago

thx... I'm not exactly sure what to do with that code. Where do I put it?

Trev · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-23 16:49:33Z

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alistek pointed me in the right direction and I ended up using Robocopy to copy the missing files:

& robocopy "{folder with missing files}" "$PublishPath\{folder to put missing files}" /MIR /NJH /NJS /NFL /NDL

Notes:

This worked perfectly for me because all my missing files were from a single directory
The /NJH /NJS /NFL /NDL switches are only used to stop Robocopy from spitting its progress to the screen

answered Feb 23, 2012 at 16:49

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Kiquenet Over a year ago

Any solution without robocopy ?

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