How to include all files in a project when publishing from Powershell

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I'm trying to publish a .Net web app using Powershell. I want to publish "all files in this project" but it only seems to be publishing "only files needed to run this application". When I publish from Visual Studio 2010 it work fine.

Here's my command:

& msbuild "$WebProjectFile" /verbosity:minimal "/t:ResolveReferences;_CopyWebApplication;publish" /p:Configuration=Release /p:OutDir="$PublishPath\bin\" /p:WebProjectOutputDir="$PublishPath"

Any ideas how I can do this?

any final solution with full source code about it? – Kiquenet Jun 06 '12 at 06:27 — Kiquenet, Jun 06 '12 at 06:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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Some notes since I am not sure exactly what is not working: - CopyLocal set to true for all your references - Add a specific copy files to the your build script

<Copy SourceFiles="@(ProjectBinFiles)" DestinationFolder="$(StageBin)\%ProjectBinFiles.RecursiveDir)" />

Below is a similar question about not all files copying:

MSBuild target _CopyWebApplication does not copy all necessary files to the bin folder

Not sure if any of this helps.

-Adam

[Edit: trying to undo my edit]

edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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answered Feb 23 '12 at 00:45

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thx... I'm not exactly sure what to do with that code. Where do I put it? – Trev Feb 23 '12 at 16:14

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 23 '12 at 16:49

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alistek pointed me in the right direction and I ended up using Robocopy to copy the missing files:

& robocopy "{folder with missing files}" "$PublishPath\{folder to put missing files}" /MIR /NJH /NJS /NFL /NDL

Notes:

This worked perfectly for me because all my missing files were from a single directory
The /NJH /NJS /NFL /NDL switches are only used to stop Robocopy from spitting its progress to the screen

answered Feb 23 '12 at 16:49

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Any solution without robocopy ? – Kiquenet May 13 '13 at 14:16

How to include all files in a project when publishing from Powershell

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