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I created in VS2015 a new App. VS will create automatically an app project and an MVC web project. Inside my MVC web project I have an template xml file as follow:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <pnp:Provisioning xmlns:pnp="http://schemas.dev.office.com/PnP/2016/05/ProvisioningSchema"> <pnp:Preferences Generator="OfficeDevPnP.Core, Version=2.7.1609.3, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=3751622786b357c2" /> <pnp:Templates ID="CONTAINER-TEMPLATE-819C564282654030A12C73A642964170"> <pnp:ProvisioningTemplate ID="TEMPLATE-819C564282654030A12C73A642964170" Version="1" BaseSiteTemplate="BLANKINTERNET#0"> <pnp:WebSettings NoCrawl="false" WelcomePage="Paginas/Home.aspx" SiteLogo="" AlternateCSS="" MasterPageUrl="{masterpagecatalog}/BM.Intern.Werkruimte/Masterpage.Intern.Werkruimte.master" CustomMasterPageUrl="{masterpagecatalog}/BM.Intern.Werkruimte/Masterpage.Intern.Werkruimte.master" /> <pnp:RegionalSettings AdjustHijriDays="0" AlternateCalendarType="None" CalendarType="Gregorian" Collation="25" FirstDayOfWeek="Monday" FirstWeekOfYear="0" LocaleId="1043" ShowWeeks="false" Time24="true" TimeZone="3" WorkDayEndHour="5:00PM" WorkDays="62" WorkDayStartHour="8:00AM" /> <pnp:SupportedUILanguages> <pnp:SupportedUILanguage LCID="1043" /> </pnp:SupportedUILanguages> <pnp:Files> <pnp:File Src="Home.aspx" Folder="{site}/Paginas" Overwrite="true"> <pnp:Properties> <pnp:Property Key="ContentTypeId" Value="{contenttypeid:Welkomstpagina}" /> <pnp:Property Key="Title" Value="Home" /> <pnp:Property Key="PublishingPageLayout" Value="{masterpagecatalog}/BlankWebPartPage.aspx, Lege pagina met webonderdelen" /> <pnp:Property Key="PublishingIsFurlPage" Value="False" /> <pnp:Property Key="RobotsNoIndex" Value="False" /> <pnp:Property Key="PublishingPageContent" Value="&lt;h1&gt;​​Welkom op de Periode!&lt;{site}h1&gt;" /> </pnp:Properties> </pnp:File> </pnp:Files> <pnp:Navigation> <pnp:GlobalNavigation /> <pnp:CurrentNavigation /> </pnp:Navigation> </pnp:ProvisioningTemplate> </pnp:Templates> </pnp:Provisioning>

In the same folder as where I have stored my template xml file I have also a blanco publishing page named Home.aspx. This is the content of Home.aspx:

<%@ Page Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.TemplateRedirectionPage,Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing,Version=15.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> <%@ Reference VirtualPath="~TemplatePageUrl" %> <%@ Reference VirtualPath="~masterurl/custom.master" %> <%@ Register Tagprefix="SharePoint" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> <html xmlns:mso="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:msdt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882"> <head> <!--[if gte mso 9]><SharePoint:CTFieldRefs runat=server Prefix="mso:" FieldList="FileLeafRef,Comments,PublishingStartDate,PublishingExpirationDate,PublishingContactEmail,PublishingContactName,PublishingContactPicture,PublishingPageLayout,PublishingVariationGroupID,PublishingVariationRelationshipLinkFieldID,PublishingRollupImage,Audience,PublishingIsFurlPage,PublishingPageImage,PublishingPageContent,SummaryLinks,SummaryLinks2,SeoBrowserTitle,SeoMetaDescription,SeoKeywords,RobotsNoIndex"><xml> <mso:CustomDocumentProperties> <mso:PublishingContact msdt:dt="string">1</mso:PublishingContact> <mso:PublishingIsFurlPage msdt:dt="string">0</mso:PublishingIsFurlPage> <mso:display_urn_x003a_schemas-microsoft-com_x003a_office_x003a_office_x0023_PublishingContact msdt:dt="string">Bart Donninger</mso:display_urn_x003a_schemas-microsoft-com_x003a_office_x003a_office_x0023_PublishingContact> <mso:PublishingContactPicture msdt:dt="string"></mso:PublishingContactPicture> <mso:RobotsNoIndex msdt:dt="string">0</mso:RobotsNoIndex> <mso:ContentTypeId msdt:dt="string">0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF390064DEA0F50FC8C147B0B6EA0636C4A7D400B00B6B5176D4C343A182CF31E3D2BE00</mso:ContentTypeId> <mso:Comments msdt:dt="string"></mso:Comments> <mso:PublishingContactEmail msdt:dt="string"></mso:PublishingContactEmail> <mso:RequiresRouting msdt:dt="string">False</mso:RequiresRouting> </mso:CustomDocumentProperties> </xml></SharePoint:CTFieldRefs><![endif]--> <title>Home</title> </head> </html>

Here is the pnp CSOM code to do the ProvisioningTemplate:

private bool ApplyProvisioningTemplate(Web newWeb) { XMLTemplateProvider provider = new XMLFileSystemTemplateProvider(String.Format(@"{0}\Templates\", AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory), ""); if (provider != null) { var template = provider.GetTemplate("periodeTemplate.xml"); template.Connector = provider.Connector; if (template != null) { newWeb.ApplyProvisioningTemplate(template); return true; } } return false; }

I can do a build on the solution. But when I try to publish the MVC web project I get build errors:

The file '/Templates/~TemplatePageUrl' does not exist.

The file '/Templates/~masterurl/custom.master' does not exist.

Why do I got this build errors when I do a publish? When I do a build I dont get them. And what is the best practice to create a new publishing page by TemplateProvisioning?

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It is not possible to use the SharePoint token ~TemplatePageUrl in the virtualPath.

I fixed it by my self. I renamed the Home.aspx to Home.txt. Now I can do a publish. After the publish I use gulp to create a deployment package. Inside gulp js code I rename the Home.txt back to Home.aspx. Here is my gulp js code:

gulp.task('fixPublishingPages', function () { gulp.src(outputFolderWeb + 'Templates/Pages/*.txt') .pipe(rename(function (path) { path.extname = ".aspx" })) .pipe(gulp.dest(outputFolderWeb + 'Templates/Pages')); del(outputFolderWeb + 'Templates/Pages/*.txt', { force: true }); });
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I found another solution which is better than my previous solution. In your Visual Studio you have publish profiles. In your publish profile you can go to settings. Disable the option: Precompile during publishing. Now you can publish your MVC web project without errors about the SharePoint token in the VirtualPath.

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