I've created a an App Service using the Azure portal and wanted to download the Publish Profile (to import that into Visual Studio). But the download button is disabled. Any suggestions?

We have an ASP.NET Core site running on our test server that we would like to auto-deploy by XCopy to our IIS web server as we do our current apps, where I already have the site running. I've added...

I have MVC 4.0 WebApi project with auto generated help based on this. My model classes are stored it another projects in my solution. Generation of xml file is enabled for every project (Project P...

I am using the new ASP.Net and Web Tools 2012.2 Publish Profiles for Web Sites (not web application). I have created a Publish Profile using the tooling which has created the file website.publishp...

I have a solution that has 10-20 web projects, and I am trying to use msbuild webdeploy to deploy them. msbuild "mysolution.sln" /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile="Debug" However, I got t...

I want to encrypt my connection string and app settings. Currently, I have multiple publish profiles with each profile having it's transform. Below is my pubxml file code but for some reason my ta...

I recognized that Web Deployment Projects are not supported in Visual Studio 2012. After reading this article, I tried to get Publish Profiles to work. After installing Visual Studio Web Publish U...

Is it possible to deploy different sets of seed data for different publish profiles using visual studio Sql Server Data tools database project? We know you can deploy seed data using a post deploy...

I have the following setup in a Visual Studio 2013 ASP.NET Web API 2 project. Web.Develop.config web transform to set an app settings key value Web.Release.config web transform to remove an app...

Consider the following scenario: Alice creates Web application (ASP.NET MVC or WebForms) using Visual Studio 2012. Alice creates a Publish Profile called "PRODUCTION" and chooses "Release" config...

When you create a new .pubxml in Visual Studio, it has a set of basic properties defined under the top-level PropertyGroup element (e.g. properties WebPublishMethod, DeployIisAppPath, etc.). But I'...

Using Visual Studio 2013 I have a set of 8 SSDT projects that can all be deployed to several distinct environments. The advanced publish settings for each project, however, are meant to be identic...

I am using Visual Studio Online to deploy my project continuously after the CI build pass. However I have to use a publish profile to build the production web.config transform so that the deployed ...

The following is the generated publish profile for my dev environment: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- This file is used by the publish/package process of your Web project. Yo...

I have a web project that I am publishing from the command line, using a publish profile that does a few additional tasks (excludes some files and folders, grunt, publishing another project in turn...

I am publishing my MVC project with the PublishProfile through visual studio, (through UI, right click project, publish) and ticking the option to clear the destination folder. But I do not want a...

What is the best way to avoid having different users on our team contribute changes to .csproj files that include references to their local Publish Profiles? We recently migrated to 2012 and our ...

Okay this is a fantastic bug. I have a 2012 solution that executes MSBuild on a 2012 TFS server. The parameters passed to the "MSBuild Arguments" field in build process template are as fo...

I've loved using the new VS 2012 Publishing Profiles, but when using them on a build server i'm unsure how to store the password. When I tick the box the "save the password" it creates a .pubxml.u...