Problems using MsBuild using command line for Publish Click Once

Question

I have Windows application in csproj in my solution, and I want generate Publish using command line (bat, cmd).

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Answer 1

Take a look at this Stack Overflow question. Basically the PublishUrl property is ignored when running ClickOnce from the command line. But you can easily add the behaviour with an additional MSBuild-task.

I've created an additional MSBuild-File, for example a build.csproj. This contains a publish-task. This task first invokes the regular MS-Build of the target-project. Afterwards it copies the result to the publish-directory. Now I invoke the 'build.csproj' instead of the reguar project-file from the command-line:

    
    
      
        
        MyExampleProject 
        
        Configuration=Release 
        
        .\bin\Release\app.publish 
        
        \\TargetServer\deployments