Publish doesn't copy Content

@jnoyola wrote:

Does anyone use VS Publish or dotnet publish? I've found that my content is copied fine during builds, but it doesn't get copied to the publish directory. I have the MonoGameContentReference and rely on MonoGame.Content.Builder.targets to manage the references for me, and I noticed that this line only has CopyToOutputDirectory but not CopyToPublishDirectory. I've tried WindowsDX and DesktopGL.Core for win-x64 and linux-x64.

I've followed these steps to make some progress, but this won't scale.

1. Add CopyToPublishDirectory but discover that CreateItem called during Build doesn't carry over Publish.
2. Add BeforeTargets="GetCopyToPublishDirectoryItems" but discover that targets from NuGet packages only seem to be referenced during Build, not Publish.
3. Moved the target into my csproj and it works.

I'm not sure if I'm missing something or broke something, but it looks like a few other people on here have suggested success with dotnet publish.

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