Changing the ASP.NET build folder

Question

I have a bare ASP.NET application with only a web.config and global.asax, is it possible to build the application as if i am publishing the entire application to a specific folder (and debugging from that specific folder) instead of VS201x running off of the default bin folder?

i.e.

x:\path\to\webapp\service\global.asax
x:\path\to\webapp\service\web.config (transformed)
x:\path\to\webapp\service\bin\*.*

The reason i want to do this is that this particular ASP.NET web application is dynamically loading assemblies and creating routes dynamically (depending on the classes decorated by a certain attribute, as is basically a WCF service)

so in the end, my build folder would be something like:

x:\path\to\webapp\service\global.asax
x:\path\to\webapp\service\web.config (transformed)
x:\path\to\webapp\service\bin\*.*
x:\path\to\webapp\plugins\plugin1\*.*
x:\path\to\webapp\plugins\plugin2\*.*

I can provide additional info if needed

This question is somewhat similar to what i needed: stackoverflow.com/questions/17429650/… — Paolo Briones
– Paolo Briones, Commented Oct 6, 2013 at 12:29
Shadow Wizard's link is exactly what i needed: stackoverflow.com/questions/7076971/… — Paolo Briones
– Paolo Briones, Commented Oct 6, 2013 at 12:41

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:30:28Z

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In Visual Studio, right click the ASP.NET project and choose Properties.
Go to the Build tab.
Click the button marked in red to select new build folder:

Edit: figured you actually want to Publish the project automatically after successfully building it, so to achive this follow the steps described here to make command line utility that will do that then add the command line as post-build event:

edited May 23, 2017 at 10:30

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answered Oct 6, 2013 at 12:29

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3 Comments

Paolo Briones Over a year ago

yes of course, but what i need is to simulate a "publish" during a build, so all of the necessary files are copied to another folder (the global.asax and transformed web.config)

Paolo Briones Over a year ago

The project folder would be in x:\some\path\to\aspnet\project\ whilst the build (published) folder would be somewhere else like x:\path\to\build\

user447356 Over a year ago

You can follow the answer here to have command line publish and add the command line as Post-build event.

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