Publish option is gone from context menu in VS2017

Question

So I'm trying to publish a project, but for whatever reason I can't. The very last project that I added still gives me the option to do it, but none of the other projects allow me to do it. The publish option is missing from the context menu (see snippets). I tried to change the guid as explained in this article , but no luck.

How do I publish my projects??

Thanks for the help in advance!

By the way I'm using Visual Studio Community 2017

Answer 1

So I haven't been able to figure out why the menu is missing, but I found a way to publish it via the command line which ends up being the same. Using a cmd with admin rights navigate to the project you want to publish and use these commands:

set Platform=
set ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=
dotnet publish -c Release -o bin\Release\PublishOutput

-c specifies the configuration {Debug|Release}, and -o the relative output location. For more info go to the documentation of dotnet

Answer 2

I fixed this issues by using VS installer ,selected web development options and installed it. After installing web development settings I can publish option.