# Publishing a Web Application (in Visual Studio)

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/publishing-a-web-application-in-visual-studio/1477
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [May 6, 2010, 10:13am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/publishing-a-web-application-in-visual-studio/1477 "2010-05-06T10:13:44Z")
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### Author: ![jhoffman](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@jhoffman](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/jhoffman)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2010, 10:13am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/publishing-a-web-application-in-visual-studio/1477/1 "2010-05-06T10:13:44Z")

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I&nbsp;have a .NET web application developed in C#.&nbsp; How can I&nbsp;mimic the Visual Studio menu item Build -\>&nbsp;Publish ?

I&nbsp;tried the suggestions in the Forum to use MSBuild Project action.&nbsp; This caused the error "Target \_DeploymentUnpublishable \ Skipping unpublishable project."

The C#&nbsp;project will "Publish"&nbsp;correctly when&nbsp;I&nbsp;use the VS&nbsp;menu item.

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### Author: ![paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/paulsamways)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2010, 11:38am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/publishing-a-web-application-in-visual-studio/1477/2 "2010-05-06T11:38:01Z")

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Hi Joshua,   
  
 Assuming you’re using Visual Studio 2008, we’re unable to execute the web site publish feature from FinalBuilder as it’s partially implemented by the VS IDE. You’ll need to use to the MSBuild action to compile the application and then use one of the other actions (FTP, File Copy, etc) in FinalBuilder to perform the deployment. Visual Studio 2010 has fixed this problem by performing the entire publish using MSBuild, see this post for more info: [https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums.aspx?aff=1&aft=9807&afv=topic](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums.aspx?aff=1&aft=9807&afv=topic)   
  
 Regards,   
 Paul.

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### Author: ![chur](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@chur](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/chur)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/publishing-a-web-application-in-visual-studio/1477/3 "2011-08-04T01:55:26Z")

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That link just points to the forum landing page. Is there an actual topic that explains how to do this correctly?