MSBuild doesn't deploy and prints no error - msbuild

Question

I'm trying to publish my project using MSBuild. Here's the command:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe" D:\HamrahFarda\KhandeShow\KhandeShow.sln /t:UserService /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=DeployUserService /p:SolutionDir=D:\HamrahFarda\KhandeShow /property:PublishFolder=C:\Publish\KhandeShow\UserService
That full command can be broken into these parts:
I use MSBuild.exe that is installed with VS 2017 community edition for .NET Core.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe"
I have a solution, and I only want to build and publish a project inside it. Thus:
D:\HamrahFarda\KhandeShow\KhandeShow.sln /t:UserService
I want it to deploy the built project:
/p:DeployOnBuild=true
I've created a publish profile beforehand:
/p:PublishProfile=DeployUserService
This is the publish profile:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup>
<PublishProtocol>FileSystem</PublishProtocol>
<Configuration>Release</Configuration>
<TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>
<PublishDir>C:\Publish\KhandeShow\UserService</PublishDir>
</PropertyGroup>
</Project>
And last but not least, I'm overriding some properties and providing new ones to be used inside .csproj:
/p:SolutionDir=D:\HamrahFarda\KhandeShow /property:PublishFolder=C:\Publish\KhandeShow\UserService
But without any error (with a bunch of warnings) it doesn't publish anything to the destination folder. I'm stuck. Can you help please, cause MSBuild is really not handy and friendly.

Answer 1

From the log you posted I was able to determine the following:
The project you are trying to publish via a web publishing method is not a web project.
UserService.csproj is defined as
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
which is a "normal" sdk-style .NET project. If you want to perform a file system publish of these projects, use dotnet publish or its msbuld equivalent msbuild /t:Publish instead.
If the project really is a web project, you should change it to
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">
To get web tooling and publishing support.
Update: also note that PublishDir in the publish profile is not the correct variable to set in the publish profile. Use PublishUrl instead so that the FileSystem publish method will copy the files to the right directory.