Publish all .net core projects in a directory

Question

I have a main directory containing all of my various .NET core solutions in subdirectories under it. Is there a way for me to publish all of these projects at once instead of opening and publishing each separately in Visual Studio?

Does this answer your question? [.NET Core - how does the 'dotnet publish' command work?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52421644/net-core-how-does-the-dotnet-publish-command-work) — gunr2171, Apr 19 '21 at 16:18
No. My question is more specific. That question asks generally how dotnet publish works. My question asks how to recursively publish multiple projects, possibly in different unrelated solutions, grouped in a single location. E.g. AllOfMyCSharpProjects/Project1Folder, AllOfMyCSharpProjects/Project2Folder, etc. — Jacob Archambault, Apr 19 '21 at 16:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 19 '21 at 16:12

You can do this with the dotnet command line interface.

To do this, open a PowerShell terminal and cd into the root directory containing the various projects you want to publish. From there, run the following:

$paths = Get-ChildItem -include *.csproj -Recurse
foreach($pathobject in $paths)
{
     cd $pathobject.directory.fullName
     dotnet publish
}

Doing this will publish every project into its default publish location, e.g. MyProjectFolder/bin/debug/netcoreapp3.1/publish.

To publish each project to a specified subdirectory, you can use the -o flag on the publish command. E.g. in the above, substitute dotnet publish -o bin\Debug\myCustomPublishFolder for dotnet publish

Publish all .net core projects in a directory

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