dotnet-publish

Publish a .NET application and its dependencies to a folder for deployment to a hosting system.

Compile a .NET project in release mode

$ dotnet publish --configuration Release [path/to/project_file]

Publish the .NET Core runtime with your application for the specified runtime

$ dotnet publish --self-contained true --runtime [runtime_identifier] [path/to/project_file]

Package the application into a platform-specific single-file executable

$ dotnet publish --runtime [runtime_identifier] -p:PublishSingleFile=true [path/to/project_file]

Trim unused libraries to reduce the deployment size of an application

$ dotnet publish --self-contained true --runtime [runtime_identifier] -p:PublishTrimmed=true [path/to/project_file]

Compile a .NET project without restoring dependencies

$ dotnet publish --no-restore [path/to/project_file]

Specify the output directory

$ dotnet publish --output [path/to/directory] [path/to/project_file]