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dotnet publish takes too long, about 5 minutes

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I am using following command dotnet publish -p:PublishProfile=Properties\PublishProfiles\FolderProfile.pubxml -v:d then it hangs since 1:7>Done building target "_RazorGetCopyToPublishDirectoryItems" in project "project.csproj".

Other projects publish so quick. I removed all not necessary folders from project.

Time Elapsed 00:04:48.26

Further technical details

ASP.NET Core version 3.1.3
IDE VS 16.5

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:14 (7 by maintainers)

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pranavkmcommented, May 1, 2020

Your project has a fair number of “Content” files and it appears this one target that’s inspecting them might be taking way too long.

Could you try an experiment to see if it helps? To your project file add:

<PropertyGroup>
  <EnableDefaultContentItems>false</EnableDefaultContentItems>
</PropertyGroup>

 <ItemGroup>
    <!-- Publish everything under wwwroot, all JSON files, all config files and all Razor files -->
    <Content Include="wwwroot\**" ExcludeFromSingleFile="true" CopyToPublishDirectory="PreserveNewest" Exclude="$(DefaultItemExcludes);$(DefaultExcludesInProjectFolder)" />
    <Content Include="**\*.config" ExcludeFromSingleFile="true" CopyToOutputDirectory="PreserveNewest" CopyToPublishDirectory="PreserveNewest" Exclude="$(DefaultItemExcludes);$(DefaultExcludesInProjectFolder);$(DefaultWebContentItemExcludes)" />
    <Content Include="**\*.json" ExcludeFromSingleFile="true" CopyToOutputDirectory="PreserveNewest" CopyToPublishDirectory="PreserveNewest" Exclude="$(DefaultItemExcludes);$(DefaultExcludesInProjectFolder);$(DefaultWebContentItemExcludes)" />

    <!-- Set CopyToPublishDirectory to Never for items under AppDesignerFolder ("Properties", by default) to avoid publishing launchSettings.json -->
    <Content Update="$(AppDesignerFolder)\**" CopyToPublishDirectory="Never" Condition="'$(AppDesignerFolder)' != ''"/>   

    <!-- Remove Content items from other item types (in a way that CPS understands) -->
    <None Remove="wwwroot\**;**\*.json;**\*.config" />
    <Compile Remove="wwwroot\**" />
    <EmbeddedResource Remove="wwwroot\**" />
</ItemGroup>

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glararancommented, May 3, 2020

@vijayrkn 68.272 Files, 273 Folders but I have following in csproj

    <Compile Remove="Themes\**" />
    <Content Remove="Themes\**" />
    <Content Remove="wwwroot\uploads\**" />
    <EmbeddedResource Remove="Themes\**" />
    <EmbeddedResource Remove="wwwroot\uploads\**" />
    <None Remove="Themes\**" />
    <None Remove="wwwroot\uploads\**" />

This should remove it from project and also from publishing or not? If I dont count Themes & uploads then its totally 2523 files

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