ASP.NET MSBuild Custom Task Before Publish Visual Studio 2013

Question

I am maintaining my user displayed application version numbers in an app.ver file that is deployed with my ASP.NET web app. Before publishing the application, I would like to be able to increment the version number in that file.

How can I hook into MSBuild to run a task that would do this incrementing prior to publishing?

Thanks!

Possibly related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12899650/why-does-msbuild-ignore-my-beforepublish-target — Nathan, Oct 01 '14 at 19:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 18 '14 at 22:35

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In your web project, add a Target that executes prior to the Publish target using the BeforeTargets target attribute.

<Target Name="PrePublish" BeforeTargets="Publish">
    ...
</Target>

answered Feb 18 '14 at 22:35

Nicodemeus

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I tried this. Both BeforeTargets Publish and MSDeployPublish at the end of the .csproj file, neither seem to get called.. – user3325343 Feb 19 '14 at 18:26

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 09 '18 at 12:27

According to this

<Project>  
    ...  
    <Target Name="BeforePublish">  
        <!-- Insert tasks to run before publish here -->  
    </Target>  
    <Target Name="AfterPublish">  
        <!-- Insert tasks to run after publish here -->  
    </Target>  
</Project>

ASP.NET MSBuild Custom Task Before Publish Visual Studio 2013

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