dotnet publish doesn´t publish correct appsettings.{env.EnvironmentName}.json

Question

When I issue the following command in the command line:

dotnet publish -o \"./../output\" -c Release

The dotnetcli publishes the pr

Answer 1

For the new csproj project format you have to add a new ItemGroup with the content

  
    PreserveNewest
  
  
    PreserveNewest
  

In case you have multiple appsettings.{env}.json files simply repeat the Content tag inside the same ItemGroup and all your settings files will end up in the publish folder.

As mentioned in the comments an even cleaner solution is to use a wildcard include:

  
    PreserveNewest
  

And all your appsettings files will be published!