How do i publish an asp.net Core application

I can't use dotnet publish as i use COM references, but i need a release build of my aspnetcore project with the Production appsettings

why can't you use dotnet publish?

you probably need to set a runtime identifier. <RuntimeIdentifier>win-x64</RuntimeIdentifier> in your csproj, then dotnet publish -c Release -r win-x64 and maybe --self-contained or whatever else you want

@johnk

Coz it’s got a COMReference and apparently only .NET framework MSBuild supports that

It builds fine through visual studio

dotnet uses msbuild behind the scenes

maybe try with dotnet msbuild -t publish (or however you call msbuild steps)

-target:Publish

i guess this, huh? https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/issues/3986

seems the solution is to use msbuild directly, and not through the dotnet cli

one comment says msbuild /property:GenerateFullPaths=true /t:build /consoleloggerparameters:NoSummary worked for them

you can probably target publish, or anything else you need