Publish MVC Project in Visual Studio 2012 Results in Empty Folder

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I am attempting to publish an MVC4 application from VS 2012 Pro running Windows 8 Pro. However, this is resulting in an empty directory at the publish root (as defined by the publish settings). I have the "All files in this project" selection for items to deploy and I am not attempting to publish any databases. Also, I'm only trying to do a local publish.

Below is a snippet from the output window. I would appreciate any suggestions for troubleshooting this issue. I have already tried to repair, uninstall, and reinstall VS.

2>Done building project "MyProject.Mvc".
2>Publishing folder /...
2>
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 5 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
========== Publish: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========

Best regards, Vinney

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 06 '12 at 02:41

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The accepted answer did not work for me; however, deleting and recreating the publish profile worked.

answered Nov 06 '12 at 02:41

Matt Cofer

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Deleting my profile worked for me as well. This was with VS 2010 premium. – khollenbeck Feb 01 '13 at 17:24

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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This the the same problem in this question and there is a workaround. Visual Studio 2012 Web Publish doesn't copy files

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Sep 12 '12 at 17:10

Roberto Nunes

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Thanks for pointing that out Roberto. I didn't find this previously. – Vinney Kelly Sep 12 '12 at 17:17

Publish MVC Project in Visual Studio 2012 Results in Empty Folder

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