I have a series of build pipelines setup by someone no longer available. The Visual Studio Build steps all have this in their MSBuild Arguments field:
/p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PackageLocation="$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)\\" /p:PublishProfile="$(build.sourcesdirectory)\RestApi\Properties\PublishProfiles\VSTS-InPlacePublish.pubxml"
This produces a release build but I would like to avoid having to specify the build profile within the source repo of the application; I would like to remove the publish profile and get the same output simply by using the appropriate parameters in the build step.
Is this possible and if so, how?