MsBuild: Generate binaries instead of zip file

Question

I want to build a solution and have the generated artifacts (binaries) in a folder rather than having them packaged in a zip file. How can I do that?

Answer 1

You can try publishing them to a file system from visual studio

or you if you want to use the console you can try using this

Using MSBuild, how do I build an MVC4 solution from the command line (applying Web.config transformations in the process) and output to a folder?

Answer 2

What I found working was to simply providing OutputPath:

msbuild.exe <solution.sln> /p:OutputPath="<target_directory>"

Just be careful the targe_directory shouldn't end with \ .