How to customize “ASP.NET CORE (Full framework)” build definition template for a solution with multiple web apps and deploy each on Azure

Question

I have a solution with 4 Asp.Net Core (full framework) web apps inside. How can you create the structure of the Artifacts Explorer shown in the image posted here by Donovan Brown if you create a new Build Definition using the VSO template "ASP.NET CORE (.NET Framework).

The template contains a Visual Studio Build (version 1*) task with MSBuildArguments "/p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:WebPublishMethod=Package /p:PackageAsSingleFile=true /p:SkipInvalidConfigurations=true /p:DesktopBuildPackageLocation="$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)\\WebApp.zip" /p:DeployIisAppPath="Default Web Site" "

This creates a single WebApp.zip with all the web apps in the solution.

I want to have a zip file for every web app in the solution so that I can create Release definitions for each web app using the Azure deployment teamplate.

Thank you

Answer 1

You can create packages of web apps by using publish profiles with the same name.

1. Right click the project > Publish >Create a publish profile (Custom)
2. Select Web Deploy Package
3. Specify relative path in Package location (eg ..\\..\\a\\Web1 )
4. Other settings
5. After that, you can specify /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile="[profile name]" in MSBuild Arguments of Visual Studio Build task.