Visual Studio 2017 MSBuild issue

Question

I am trying to publish a Visual stuido Project from another Project, to do this I have created a bat file which runs my MSBuild file. If you run this outside of Visual Studio it works correctly but when i tried to add it to Visual Studio's prebuild scripts it does not publish. I am getting this warning -

 C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(1820,5): warning MSB3247: Found confl
icts between different versions of the same dependent assembly. In Visual Studio, double-click this warning (or select
it and press Enter) to fix the conflicts; otherwise, add the following binding redirects to the "runtime" node in the a
pplication configuration file

My MSBuild file:

<Target Name="BeforeBuild">
<MSBuild
        Projects="E:\Development\alyz\myAPI\View.API.sln"
        Targets="View_API_Search"
        Properties="DeployOnBuild=true;Configuration=Release;PublishProfile=InstallerPublish;WebPublishMethod=FileSystem;PublishURL=E:\Temp\installertemp\SearchAPI" /> 
</Target>

Visual Studio is saying that my project has built correctly but i can't work out why it's not publishing, any ideas?

Any update for this issue? Have you resolved this issue? If not, would you please let me know the latest information about this issue? — Leo Liu, Oct 12 '18 at 01:45
@Leo i was able to test it this morning your fix worked perferctly, Thanks! — Chris, Oct 12 '18 at 09:58

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 11 '18 at 03:31

Visual Studio is saying that my project has built correctly but i can't work out why it's not publishing, any ideas?

You can use another solution for this issue. Following is my publish target, you can check it:

  <Target Name="BeforeBuild">
    <Exec Command="&quot;<YourMSBuild.exePath>\msbuild.exe&quot; &quot;<YourSolutionPath>\View.API.sln&quot; /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=InstallerPublish.pubxml /p:Configuration=Release /p:PublishURL=E:\Temp\installertemp\SearchAPI"></Exec>
  </Target>

With this target, the project/solution will be build and published when you build the project.

Hope this helps.

Visual Studio 2017 MSBuild issue

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