Deployment without the administration

Could you provide an example of your .csproj file?

Hi Sean,

You can see a detailed info regarding our csproj below.

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>
	<AdminAttached Condition="'$(AdminAttached)' == ''">true</AdminAttached>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|AnyCPU'">
    <TreatWarningsAsErrors>True</TreatWarningsAsErrors>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Release|AnyCPU'">
    <TreatWarningsAsErrors>True</TreatWarningsAsErrors>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(AdminAttached)' == 'true'">
    <DefineConstants>$(DefineConstants);ADMIN_ATTACHED</DefineConstants>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <Compile Remove="%24CDRepository\**" />
    <Compile Remove="App_Data\**" />
    <Content Remove="%24CDRepository\**" />
    <Content Remove="App_Data\**" />
    <EmbeddedResource Remove="%24CDRepository\**" />
    <EmbeddedResource Remove="App_Data\**" />
    <None Remove="%24CDRepository\**" />
    <None Remove="App_Data\**" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <Content Include="App_Data\AzureCache\Azure.txt">
      <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
    </Content>
    <Content Include="App_Data\AzureTemp\Azure.txt">
      <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
    </Content>
    <Content Include="app_offline.htm_" Condition="Exists('app_offline.htm_')" CopyToPublishDirectory="PreserveNewest" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="AutoMapper.Extensions.Microsoft.DependencyInjection" Version="12.0.1" />
	<PackageReference Include="kentico.xperience.admin" Version="29.4.1" Condition="'$(AdminAttached)' == 'true'" />
    <PackageReference Include="kentico.xperience.azurestorage" Version="29.4.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="kentico.xperience.cloud" Version="29.4.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="kentico.xperience.imageprocessing" Version="29.4.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="kentico.xperience.webapp" Version="29.4.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.jQuery.Unobtrusive.Validation" Version="4.0.0" />
    <PackageReference Include="Swashbuckle.AspNetCore" Version="6.7.0" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <ProjectReference Include="..\..\Business\Custom.Extensions\Custom.Extensions.csproj" />
    <ProjectReference Include="..\..\Business\Custom.Services\Custom.Services.csproj" />
    <ProjectReference Include="..\AdminApplications\CustomAdminLib.Lib1.csproj" Condition="'$(AdminAttached)' == 'true'" />
    <ProjectReference Include="..\AdminApplications\CustomAdminLib.Lib2" Condition="'$(AdminAttached)' == 'true'" />
    <ProjectReference Include="..\AdminApplications\CustomAdminLib.Lib3" Condition="'$(AdminAttached)' == 'true'" />
    <ProjectReference Include="..\Custom.DataAnnotations\Custom.DataAnnotations.csproj" />
    <ProjectReference Include="..\Custom.WebApi\Custom.WebApi.csproj" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <None Include="App_Data\CMSModules\WebFarm\webfarm.sync">
      <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
    </None>
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <Folder Include="Properties\PublishProfiles\" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

I notice you have a lot of project references. Are any of those referencing the kentico.xperience.admin NuGet package? If so, they would also need the Condition="'$(AdminAttached)' == 'true'" MSBuild attribute on the package entries in their .csproj files.

Hi Sean,

All of the projects referencing kentico.xperience.admin also have the attribute and all the categories and applications we have added are successfully excluded.

Hence I don't think that is the issue.

1. Are any of your projects using one of our open-source integrations? Not all of them support deploying the admin separately.
2. Your application builds correctly when you run dotnet build -p:AdminAttached=false?
3. You can use dotnet nuget why to find all the packages referencing kentico.xperience.admin