How can I disable build before publishing?

Question

Hello!

I want to publish my project as ClickOnce. But I have an edited version of exe file. So I want to replace exe in Release folder with my exe.

But before publishing is going build, which replaced my "new exe" file with builded.

Can I disable auto build before publishing somehow? 

Answer 1

Please ask in the forum dedicated to your topic, here:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winformssetup/threads 

You'll get the best advice there.

Answer 2

I'm afraid that you cannot do that under Visual Studio:

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165431(v=vs.100).aspx

The /target:publish command tells MSBuild to invoke the publish target. The publish target depends on the build target. This means that the publish operation is a superset of the build operation. For example, if you made a change to one of your Visual Basic or C# source files, the corresponding assembly would automatically be rebuilt by the publish operation.

For information on generating a full ClickOnce deployment using the Mage.exe command-line tool to create your ClickOnce manifest, see Walkthrough: Manually Deploying a ClickOnce Application.

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And if you do not want the msbuild to be involved into the publish proceed, then you can consider to use the mage.exe/mageUI.exe tool to publish the application manually.

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Answer 3

Thank you, pvdg42, - you right thats more exactly place 4 my question.

Thank you, Mike Dos Zhang, - you have gave me an answer!

Answer 4

You're welcome!

Have a good day!

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