In my experience this can happen when files are added/removed from different branches of your source control and an imperfect merge causes the project file structure and the actual file structure to diverge. This could be one of several options: A file was deleted but the project still references it. Will fail to compile, will … Read more
Ok, finally figured this out. The command line you need is: msbuild path/to/your/webdirectory/YourWeb.csproj /p:Configuration=Debug;DeployOnBuild=True;PackageAsSingleFile=False You can change where the project outputs to by adding a property of outdir=c:\wherever\ in the /p: section. This will create the output at: path/to/your/webdirectory/obj/Debug/Package/PackageTmp/ You can then copy those files from the above directory using whatever method you’d like. I’ve … Read more
Same problem. The workaround was changing the publish settings from Release to Debug. Re-publish and then change back to Release…