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A publish profile to publish a Visual Studio Website can be used from both the Visual Studio 2013 publish dialog, and from the command line MsBuild as explained in this question Using msbuild to execute a File System Publish Profile
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe
./ProjectRoot/MyProject.csproj /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=FileSystemDebug
However, I want to get rid of the publish profile completely and do everything from the command line - because I do not want the publish path to be hard-coded in the PublishProfile xml file. How can I specify the same options directly in the command line arguments? I have tried using OutDir instead, but that results in a different behavior than the path specified in the PublishProfile (an extra _PublishedWebsites is appended to my path).
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You can pass /p:PublishUrl="newpath" to the msbuild command. You would also see this set in the csproj file which you can change.
A publish profile is just an MSBuild file. When you pass in PublishProfile and DeployOnBuild=true, then the publish profile is Imported into the build/publish process. It will supply the publish properties needed to perform the publish. Let's see how that works.
Publish profile files are named <profilename>. pubxml and are located in the PublishProfiles folder. The PublishProfiles folder is under Properties in a C# web application project, under My Project in a VB web application project, or under App_Data in a web site project.
Basic command-line publishingThe default publish folder format is bin\Debug\{TARGET FRAMEWORK MONIKER}\publish\. For example, bin\Debug\netcoreapp2. 2\publish\. The dotnet publish command calls MSBuild, which invokes the Publish target.
publish.bat
SET PROJECT="D:\Github\MyWebSite.csproj"
SET MSBUILD_PATH="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild\15.0\Bin"
SET PUBLISH_DIRECTORY="C:\MyWebsitePublished"
cd /d %MSBUILD_PATH%
MSBuild %PROJECT% /p:DeployOnBuild=True /p:DeployDefaultTarget=WebPublish /p:WebPublishMethod=FileSystem /p:DeleteExistingFiles=True /p:publishUrl=%PUBLISH_DIRECTORY%
needs a Visual Studio to be installed on server.
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