.Net Core Website publish Microsoft.WebSite.Publishing.targets - web

I am on .Net Core 2.0.
I create a new solution containing a webapp and a website. The website project contains an index.html and web.config file.
I have no issue publishing the web application, but the website causes me some trouble.
I added a publish profile configured for FileSystem publish method.
When I run dotnet publish on the default .publishproj generated, I get the following error message
error MSB4019: The imported project
"C:\ProgramFiles\dotnet\sdk\2.0.0\Microsoft\
VisualStudio\v10.5\Web\Microsoft.Web
Site.Publishing.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the
<Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.
Ok, so I change the website.publishproj value to where the targets file is located.
<!--<Import
Project="$(_WebPublishTargetsPath)\Web\Microsoft.WebSite.Publishing.targets"
/>-->
<Import Project="C:\Program Files
(x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\Web\
Microsoft.WebSite.Publishing.targets" />
Then I get
error MSB3030: Could not copy the file
"C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\WebSitePublish\WebSite2-
1026028577\obj\Debug\website.exe" because it was not found.
[C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\visual studio
2017\WebSites\WebSite2\website.publishproj]
I can publish the website using visual studio without any issue. What am I missing?

It looks like you are trying to use the dotnet CLI tooling to publish "classic" website projects which is not supported. Use msbuild from the developer command prompt instead.

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The error shows some files not found in your project. I suggest you could exclude the related files in the csproj file or make sure the related files is in your project.
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Update:
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Error image:
I think in your project you have inclued the bin and obj folder into your project and then you push the project to the github.
Like below:
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Like below:
This is the reason about your MSBuild fail.
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Additionally, if you have other projects in your VS solution and you are using VS to build those projects and then put the dll into your main projects bin folder, that will cause a missing file error also. I create a folder in my packages folder and link the dll to my main folder from there. That way when you perform the fix above, the file needed by your main project is in the packages folder also.
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Update
It appears that what is causing this issue is this line within the .csproj file:
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This ended up being the fix:
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We have some configuration files in our web application, e.g. settings.js that are specific to a given environment and created during the initial setup of the web page. We are building a web package using visual studio 2015 and deploy the package using the generated cmd file (web deploy 3.5).
I have tried many suggested solutions to have the file not being updated or removed when deploying a new version of the web package but nothing has worked so far.
Any suggestions on how this can be done? Basically, the settings.js file on the server should just be ignored and not touched at all by the upgrade.
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<ExcludeFromPackageFiles Include="#(DeploymentFiles)">
<FromTarget>Project</FromTarget>
</ExcludeFromPackageFiles>
</ItemGroup>
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I have an Azure cloud service project to which I am adding a cache worker role. While local build goes through fine, I get the following error on my server builds :
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1) Visual Studio Build (or MSBuild) action with arguments /t:Build (clean here)
2) Visual Studio Build (or MSBuild) action with arguments /t:Publish (do not clean here)
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What I've tried
I've tried the example from this question:
After Publish event in Visual Studio
And the changes and examples given here:
http://www.digitallycreated.net/Blog/59/locally-publishing-a-vs2010-asp.net-web-application-using-msbuild
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Project "MainProj.csproj" (1) is building "ReferencedProj.csproj" (2) on node 1 (default targets).
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Common.targets(609,5): error : The OutputPath property is not set for project 'ReferencedProj.csproj'. Please check to make sure that you have specified a valid combination of Configuration and Platform for this project. Configuration='Staging' Platform='AnyCPU'. You may be seeing this message because you are trying to build a project without a solution file, and have specified a non-default Configuration or Platform that doesn't exist for this project. [ReferencedProj.csproj]
Done Building Project "ReferencedProj.csproj" (default targets) -- FAILED.
This approach is very similar to what's suggested in this answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/7077178/176877
The crucial difference may be that I'm in Visual Studio 2012, rather than VS2008 or 2010.
Old question, but in case this helps anyone, this simple, stripped back approach worked fine for me:
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup>
...
<BuildDependsOn>
$(BuildDependsOn);
PublishOtherProject;
</BuildDependsOn>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target Name="PublishOtherProject">
<MSBuild Projects="pathtomyproject.csproj" Properties="DeployOnBuild=true;PublishProfile=nameOfPublishProfile" />
</Target>
The key line being:
<MSBuild Projects="pathtomyproject.csproj" Properties="DeployOnBuild=true;PublishProfile=nameOfPublishProfile" />

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