Disable Publishing in MSBuild

Question

I have an application that I wrote in C# and build in VisualStudio. One day I was exploring the 'publish' tab in the project properties section just to see what it did. Now everytime I build my application, I get a whole bunch of files related to ClickOnce installers (*.application, *.deploy, etc.) that I don't really want anymore. How do I disable or otherwise stop these items from appearing when I build my project??

Solution 1

I solved the problem by unchecking 'Sign ClickOnce Manifests' in the 'Signing' tab as well as 'Enable ClickOnce security settings' in the 'Security' tab.

Solution 2

For WinForms Windows Application

Go to: Project > Properties > Security

Then uncheck 'Enable ClickOnce security settings'

Solution 3

2 ways to do it,

• Go to the web project and click on properties, go to the 'Package/Publish Web' tab and uncheck the option

• Over ride it from your build definition, click edit on your build defination, go to process tab and expand advanced and pass the following argument /P:CreatePackageOnPublish=false

HTH Cheers, Tarun

Comments

[A.R.]

Thanks, but this isn't a web application.

[Max Kielland]

Good to know that I'm not the only one going nuts on Visual Studio's behaviours. I did the same thing as you did; Explored the publish setting...

[jschober]

I tried that but it's not fixing this (2017). Has anything changed since?