如何在Visual Studio 2012中的命令行上将ASP.NET网站或Web应用程序发布到文件系统

Question

According to the answer from this SO article , command line publishing to FTP or file system is no longer supported in VS2012. Nevertheless, this requirement remains for my project. I imagine other people and projects have the same requirement.

What is a good way to do this?

I know that at least one answer is to use Web Deploy . That's not going to work for me. I imagine it doesn't work for others as well.

My project already uses MSBuild on the command line. It would be OK to add some kind of post-build event or extra build configuration called "CustomPublish" or some such. We could xcopy the result somewhere in the post-build event. Something like: msbuild /p:Configuration=CustomPublish

The problem is how to get Visual Studio to emit the final result without any "extras" like .pdb files and such.

Answer 1

To have MSBuild not emit the debug symbols pass the following properties via the command line:

MSBuild.exe solution.sln /p:DebugSymbols=false /p:DebugType=None

You could also put these values in the new configuration you mentioned :

<DebugSymbols>false</DebugSymbols>
<DebugType>None</DebugType>

I would take a look at this MSDN link as well: Web Deployment Overview for Visual Studio and ASP.NET