Visual Studio 2017 - Not Able to see Publish Profiles

Question

In my VS 2017, my publish profile is not being listed in the publish section of the VS 2017.

I can run the application with no error but I can't publish it or see and log file saying any error about when I do right click the project and click on publish. And also even if I wanted to create new profile VS just doesn't open create new profile window.

Any guess what might be causing this?

Answer 1

Just like @MikeB said, I checked that with XML validators on the web but then realized the problem was that I was using invalid XML tag and XML attributes in .pubxml after using the correct one problem was solved!

Check whether you are using your XML node and attributes correctly!

Answer 2

I've recently encountered this problem in VS 2019 with a project whose .pubxml profiles had been working fine and have not changed for quite a while.

The problem turned out to be a corrupted .pubxml.user file that was preventing VS from loading any profiles. The .pubxml.user files exist in the same directory as the .pubxml file and deleting them solved the issue for me.

Answer 3

I had the same issue. One of the .pubxml has conflict, after resolving the conflict(SVN) it worked.