.NET Core 2.0 By Example

Publishing profiles

Upon publishing, Visual Studio will create a publishing profile. It's basically a folder containing files created in the project, and can be seen in the Properties node of the project, as shown in the following screenshot:

We can have multiple profiles and these profiles will be stored in the PublishProfiles folder with the file extension .pubxml, as these are XML files. .pubxml files contain information such as the type of build ; for example, the release/debug build. It has URLs and a username that are part of the deployment credentials, as shown in the following code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--This file ...