How to automate Visual Studio 2017 web project publish to folder
this did not put any files in the bin\Release\PublishOutput location. It looked like it just did a standard build
I have reproduced this issue with your command line. After research this issue for a long time, I try to remove the parameter "/p:VisualStudioVersion=15.2", then re-publish the project with the command line:
msbuild MyProject.csproj /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile="MyProfile.pubxml"It build and publish successfully, and web project publish to folder where you set in the option "<publishUrl>" in MyProfile.pubxml.
So please try to remove the parameter "/p:VisualStudioVersion" in the MSBuild command line, check if it works for you.
Note: I have also test that command line with VisualStudioVersion for the project created by the Visual Studio 2015, it works fine. Not sure whether this is a issue for Visual Studio 2017, I need to confirm it, if it`s a issue for Visual Studio 2017, I will send this issue to Visual Studio team.