Web-Publishing is a generic term for publishing content on the internet. It may relate to publishing articles, books, media, or websites. This term also is sometimes used to refer to the Microsoft MSBuild Web Publishing Pipeline identifed here by [tag:msbuild-wpp]
Questions tagged [web-publishing]
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Exclude files from web site publish in Visual Studio
Can I exclude a folder or files when I publish a web site in Visual Studio 2005? I have various resources that I want to keep at hand in the Solution Explorer, such as alternate config files for various environments, but I don't really want to…

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VS2010 Web Publish command line version of File System deploy
Folks,
In a nutshell, I want to replicate this dialog:
It's a Visual Studio 2010 ASP.Net MVC project. If I execute this command, I get all the files I want, including the transformed web.configs in the "C:\ToDeploy" directory.
I want to replicate…

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Temp path too long when publishing a web site project
I am trying to publish an ASP.NET web site project using the Publish Web Site tool but get this error:
ASPNETCOMPILER(0,0): Error ASPRUNTIME: The specified path, file name,
or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less…

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VS2013 publish Web deployment task failed The file is in use
I am using VS2013 Premium to publish a site to Windows Server 2012.
All files publish ok except…

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Deploying an existing package using publish profiles
I'm trying to use the new publish profile support (available in VS2012 and in VS2010 via an update) to create a continuous delivery "deployment pipeline", whereby a package/zip is made in the first "stage" and the same package is deployed to various…

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Visual Studio Publish Web Dialogue takes excessive time to load
Whenever I launch the Visual Studio 2015 Publish Web Dialogue (or Visual Studio 2013, both have the same issue) for a specific project, it takes ~20-30 seconds for it to open. Just as well, when I switch between publish profiles it takes the same…

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How can I stop Visual Studio's Web Publish from removing write permissions from my target web site?
I have a web app (actually Orchard CMS) that I am customizing and I want to push directl from my build server to my hosting provider, using Web Publishing aka MSDeploy.
The problem is, when I publish the site (from Visual Studio, haven't tried it…

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ASP.NET MVC 5 publish precompile problems
I have used the web publishing tool to publish my MVC 5 app in the past without precompiling in the past. As part of my effort to reduce the initial load time for each page, I have modified my publish settings as shown below to precompile the app…

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Publish Web to file system from Visual Studio 2010 does nothing but delete
When I try to publish in Windows 7 from Visual Studio 2010 via File System, no files are added to my target folder. If I choose "Replace matching files with local copies", nothing happens. If I choose "Delete existing files prior to publish", it…

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Visual Studio 2012 Web Deploy publish preview shows all files as changed
The Preview pane of the Web Publishing dialog in Visual Studio 2012 works quite nicely when you're the only developer working on the codebase (see example below):
However, it seems to fall down when multiple developers use it. It appears to use…

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Good CSS library for print and "report" style formatting
What is a good CSS library that can be used for generating reports, in both preview and print form?
The key in the "reports" is that they would look more like a formal (and printable) document than an actual web page.
Features that would be…

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Setup publish to folder using VSTS
I was using publish to folder option through Visual Studio by right-clicking on the project -> publish -> publish to folder. Result was always ready-to-copy project with applied transformations.
I wanted to automate this process using VSTS and have…

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How can I exclude a target folder from deleting, when Publishing an ASP.Net web application?
When I try to Publish my web application, It deletes all the existing files in the deployment folder and re-Create everything. I need one folder (say a folder named 'Notes') not to be deleted.
I can see on the Publish Web wizard to "Excludes files…

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ASP.NET Azure publishing
I deploy ASP.NET to Azure using VS 2012 publishing wizard. After success message in output window
Build: 0 succeeded, 0 failed, 2 up-to-date, 0 skipped
Publish: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped
the site starts in my google chrome tab, but I see…

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Injecting DbContext to API controllers makes them return index.html instead of the actual result on published version of NET5 React webapp
I am using a default ReactApp project from visual studio with net5 as framework. This by default comes with a WeatherApiController. Now the problem is, I created a DataContext (DbContext) which I am trying to inject in the…

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