Visual Studio 2017 Task Runner Explorer not running events on Publish

Question

I have a gulp file that has 2 tasks in it 1. deletes *.html files from a directory 2. copies *.html files to a directory

I have Visual Studio 2017's Task Runner Explorer setup so that:

• Before build runs task 1
• After build runs task 2

If I run the tasks from Visual Studio 2017's Task Runner Explorer they work

WhenI do a Visual Studio 2017's Publish, the Task Runner Explorer events are not firing. How can we get them to fire on Publish?

Answer 1

Not sure, why it is not working on publish. It's always special.

As an alternative you can exectute gulp explicitly on publishing. For doing this, open your publishing profile (Properties/PublishProfiles/profile.pubxml) and modify it:

<Target Name="BeforeBuild">
   <Exec Command="gulp myTask" WorkingDirectory="$(ProjectDir)" />
</Target>

Also make sure, you have installed gulp-cli via package.json or by running the following command, if not already done:

npm install -g gulp-cli