Views not being copied when publish the project in netcore 2.0 visual studio 2017

Question

I have createa a ASP.NET Core 2.0 project in VS 2017. When I publish my project the Views folder are not there but the wwwroot folder is.

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Answer 1

ASP.NET Core MVC has a precompilation feature, that could be added by referencing the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.ViewCompilation package. Feature enabling/disabling configured by MvcRazorCompileOnPublish property is .csproj.

And by default, the package is added in ASP.NET Core 2.0 MVC applications:

If you're targeting ASP.NET Core 2.0 or higher on netcoreapp2.0, a reference to the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.ViewCompilation package is added by Microsoft.AspNetCore.All and you do not need to explicitly reference it.

and precompilation is enabled:

The ASP.NET Core 2.x project templates implicitly set MvcRazorCompileOnPublish to true by default, which means this node can be safely removed from the .csproj file:

    netcoreapp2.0
    true
  

If you go to publish output folder, you will see dll like .PrecompiledViews.dll which contains your views.