AIGuiders.DotnetTools.PublishFixedTarget 0.1.2

aid-publish

aid-publish is a .NET tool that wraps dotnet publish with two pragmatic features:

• Mirrors the publish output into a fixed target directory (no-spaces friendly) so you can reliably point MCP configs or shortcuts to a stable path.
• Optionally kills the running app only if it is running from that target path (prevents file-lock publish failures).

Install (local tool)

From a repo root:

dotnet tool install AIGuiders.DotnetTools.PublishFixedTarget

Usage

dotnet aid-publish -Project path/to/app.csproj -Target D:\my-app-debug -Runtime win-x64 -Configuration Debug -SelfContained -KillRunning

Show help:

dotnet aid-publish -Help

Options (high level)

• -Project: .csproj to publish (required)
• -Target: target directory to mirror into (required)
• -Runtime: RID (default win-x64)
• -Configuration: Debug or Release (default Debug)
• -SelfContained: publish self-contained
• -OutDir: publish output directory (default: publish-{configuration})
• -AppExeName: executable/process name if it differs from project file name
• -KillRunning: kill the app if it is running from the target path
• -MsbuildProp: repeatable /p:Name=Value
• -DotnetArg: repeatable extra args appended to dotnet publish
• -RequireMirrorFile: repeatable relative path — after mirroring must exist as file under Target. Example for RoslynMcp (Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Workspaces.MSBuild): BuildHost-netcore/Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Workspaces.MSBuild.BuildHost.dll — catches incomplete publish output before MCP fails at runtime.