When Visual Studio Cannot Publish a Website
If you ever come across a situation where VS does not properly publish a site, but also doesn’t give any reason why, it maybe a good idea to go to the command prompt instead of VS. At the command prompt use the following statement
aspnet_compiler -v /MyWebSite -p “{Root}” “{Target}” -errorstack
Root and Target are directory paths for the source of the build and the destination of the build. The best part is that this command will display a nice error stack showing the issue, which , depending on the problem at hand , maybe something that VS cannot show .
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