Views not being copied when publish the project in netcore 2.0 visual studio 2017
ASP.NET Core MVC has a precompilation feature, that could be added by referencing the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.ViewCompilation
package. Feature enabling/disabling configured by MvcRazorCompileOnPublish
property is .csproj.
And by default, the package is added in ASP.NET Core 2.0 MVC applications:
If you're targeting ASP.NET Core 2.0 or higher on netcoreapp2.0, a reference to the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.ViewCompilation package is added by Microsoft.AspNetCore.All and you do not need to explicitly reference it.
and precompilation is enabled:
The ASP.NET Core 2.x project templates implicitly set
MvcRazorCompileOnPublish
to true by default, which means this node can be safely removed from the .csproj file:<PropertyGroup> <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework> <MvcRazorCompileOnPublish>true</MvcRazorCompileOnPublish> </PropertyGroup>
If you go to publish output folder, you will see dll like <project_name>.PrecompiledViews.dll
which contains your views.
In .NET Core 3.1 or later, we need to add the following code in .csproj:
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
<CopyRazorGenerateFilesToPublishDirectory>true</CopyRazorGenerateFilesToPublishDirectory>
</PropertyGroup>
According to the docs:
When
true
, copiesRazorGenerate
items (.cshtml) files to the publish directory. Typically, Razor files aren't required for a published app if they participate in compilation at build-time or publish-time. Defaults tofalse
.
It might be generating <project_name>.Views.dll
by default. You need to set MvcRazorCompileOnPublish
property false
in your project .csproj
file. By default it is true
.
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.1</TargetFramework>
<MvcRazorCompileOnPublish>false</MvcRazorCompileOnPublish>
</PropertyGroup>