How to auto publish a project just after building?

Question

When building or rebuilding a solution, I want to automatically publish all the publishable project within my solution.

Answer 1

I found the answer here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42761282/automatically-publish-web-application-on-build-from-visual-studio-2015

Answer 2

Hi @Tony Enrique Orozco Suarez , Welcome to Microsoft Q&A,

Since Q&A users cannot mark their own answers, I will reorganize and post your answer.

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You can't trigger the web publish via as that's automatically disabled when building from Visual Studio.DeployOnBuild

You can, however, trigger the process as part of the same MSBuild invocation via some MSBuild trickery:

<!-- In Directory.Build.props or the csproj (before the web targets import) -->
<PropertyGroup>
  <PublishProfile>Local</PublishProfile>
</PropertyGroup>

And also:

<!-- After the above, or in ProjectName.wpp.targets -->
<PropertyGroup>
  <AutoPublish Condition="'$(AutoPublish)' == '' and '$(Configuration)' == 'Debug' and '$(BuildingInsideVisualStudio)' == 'true' and '$(PublishProfile)' != ''">true</AutoPublish>

  <AutoPublishDependsOn Condition="'$(AutoPublish)' == 'true'">
    $(AutoPublishDependsOn);
    WebPublish
  </AutoPublishDependsOn>
</PropertyGroup>

<Target Name="AutoPublish" AfterTargets="Build" DependsOnTargets="$(AutoPublishDependsOn)">
</Target>

If you're finding that your publish project isn't being built when you make content changes, add the following:

<!-- csproj ONLY, won't work elsewhere -->
<PropertyGroup>
  <DisableFastUpToDateCheck>true</DisableFastUpToDateCheck>
</PropertyGroup>

Best Regards,

Jiale

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