VS2012 publish multiple projects in a solution

Question

We are using VS2012. We have a solution with mulitple web projects and are using publish to deploy a project. There are already quite a few projects in the solution. To publish all of them at once it is pretty time consuming. Is there a way to publish all the projects at once?

Answer 1

I found out I can use msbuild at the command line to publish multiple projects.

msbuild example.sln /p:Configuration=Test;DeployOnBuild=true;PublishProfile=Test.example.pubxml /MaxCpuCount:8

Answer 2

You might be interested in publishing from command line:

msbuild YourSolution.sln /property:Configuration=Release;DeployOnBuild=true;PublishProfile=Production

You can find further reading on Scott Hanselman's blog for example.