Publish Website Getting Empty Folder

c# asp.net visual-studio-2012 publishing
Moslem7026 picture Moslem7026 · Oct 25, 2012 · Viewed 14.6k times · Source

I Have Build project with visual studio but when i want to publish my website i get an empty folder and nothing there ! no error or warning , 

Building directory '/project/Users/'.
Pre-compilation Complete
------ Publish started: Project: F:\...\project\, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------
Connecting to site E:\project...
Publishing directory /...
========== Build: 1 succeeded or up-to-date, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========
========== Publish: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========

e:\project is empty

Answer

Shamnani Kamlesh picture Shamnani Kamlesh · Sep 18, 2013

Build your project (not rebuild) it will work :)

OR

Other workaround is publish in debug mode first then change settings and publish in release mode. it will surely work :)

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