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Is there any MSBuild property that shows we are in publish?

I want to conditionally undefine DEBUG if it's a publish build.

is there a property I can check to see if we're currently publishing?

Solution

  • See this issue-comment in the dotnet/sdk repository. Microsoft seemingly introduced the MSBuild-variable _IsPublishing which can be used to check if we're in a publish-build. This variable will contain yes if we are indeed doing dotnet publish and is empty if we are not.

    Note however, that this variable will not be set, when using dotnet build /t:Publish or msbuild /t:Publish.