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Visual Studio 2015. Unable to publish my project - appears to build fine

Visual Studio 2015.update3 - fully updated & patched - windows 8.1 - .net 4.7.1
2>------ Publish started: Project: Prometheus, Configuration: Release x64 ------
2>Connecting to C:\Temp\publish...
2>Project "test.csproj" (GatherAllFilesToPublish target(s)):
2> Building with tools version "14.0".
2> Target "ValidateMSBuildToolsVersion" skipped. Previously built unsuccessfully.
2>Done building project "test.csproj" -- FAILED.
2>
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
========== Publish: 0 succeeded, **1 failed**, 0 skipped ==========
I have searched and tried every solution online - no joy. Have spent over 3 days trying to sort this out - getting super frustrated now. It appears to build fine but always fails to publish to a local folder on the pc.
Hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
Note: I have tried Any CPU, Debug, and Release configurations - all end the same. I have configured the build to output diagnostic information which is available on request.

Visual Studio publish doesn't report errors

I have a WCF web service using Visual Studio 2015. If I have a compile error in C# code, when I publish the web service (to a file location) the "build" will succeed, and continue through a successful publish:
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 1 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
========== Publish: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========
If I then deploy to an IIS web server and call the web service there, the call fails and returns a page describing the compilation error.
When publishing, the output in VS starts with Build started: but apparently it isn't really doing a build because any build would have failed, and in fact if I do a build instead of publish, it does report the error(s). Do I have to remember to build before publishing to check for errors, or is there a way to get it to really for realz compile the code?

If solution has many projects then try building them one at a time.
Try below steps:
Restart Visual Studio.
Restart Computer
Rebuild all
Clean Solution then Rebuild All
Also you can check below
Setting the MSBuild project build output verbosity (in Options > Projects and Solutions > Build and Run setting area) to "Diagnostic" as shown below. This then showed that the custom action was what had failed.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/saraford/2008/10/07/did-you-know-you-can-configure-the-msbuild-verbosity-in-the-output-window-329/

Simple WebApi Stateless Service on a local ServiceFabric cluster fails to deploy

I'm trying to host WebAPI service on local ServiceFabric cluster. However, I'm unable to start even a simple Web Api template provided by VS2017.
I did the following:
I prepared the environment: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-get-started
I created a new project in Visual Studio, choosing "Service Fabric Application", and "Stateless Web API" service template
When I build it, and click run, it tries to deploy it but I get the following error:
Screen1
And the output is:
2>Copying application to image store... 2>Copy application
package succeeded 2>Registering application type...
2>Register-ServiceFabricApplicationType : Operation timed out.
2>At C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Service
Fabric\Tools\PSModule\ServiceFabricS
2>DK\Publish-NewServiceFabricApplication.ps1:251 char:9 2>+
Register-ServiceFabricApplicationType -ApplicationPathInImage ...
2>+
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2>
+ CategoryInfo : OperationTimeout: (Microsoft.Servi...usterConnection:ClusterConnection)
[Register-ServiceFabricApplicationType], TimeoutException 2> +
FullyQualifiedErrorId :
RegisterApplicationTypeErrorId,Microsoft.Service 2>
Fabric.Powershell.RegisterApplicationType 2>Finished executing
script 'Deploy-FabricApplication.ps1'. 2>Time elapsed:
00:02:01.7559509 2>The PowerShell script failed to execute.
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 1 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
========== Deploy: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========
The interesting part is that when I choose basic "Stateless Service" template in Visual Studio, it works just fine. The problem I have is related to Web Api service on SF. My assumption is that the Web Api project has to write some additional info somewhere on the disk but does not have access to that path.
I tried reinstalling SF and SF SDK but with no results. I'm running VS2017 as an Administrator.
Any help greatly appreciated.

Error in code publishing

If I publish the code then it is not copying in web folder that exists in wwwroot .
Empty folder is there but while publishing it is saying that Site was published successfully.
After that it open blank browser with message (To Parent Directory)
It is giving no error.
Building directory '/project/Users/'.
Pre-compilation Complete
------ Publish started: Project: F:\...\project\, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------
Connecting to site E:\project...
Publishing directory /...
========== Build: 1 succeeded or up-to-date, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========
========== Publish: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========

I got the solution
Publish in debug mode first then change settings and publish in release mode. it will surely work :)

VisualStudio 2013 - debugging on Remote Machine error

I'm trying to run my blank Windows Store Application using "Remote Machine" from VisualStudio 2013.
I installed Remote Tools x86( 64 doesn't work) for VS 2013 on Tablet ( Windows 8, Intel Atom).
After clicking Start Debgging in VS2013 incoming connection is shown in Remote Debugging Monitor on Tablet, but I get an Error:
(..)
2>------ Deploy started: Project: store (Windows 8.1), Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------
2>Error : DEP0600 : The following unexpected error occurred during deployment:
2>Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
========== Deploy: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========