dll files of the application as well as the third party libraries, and folder for static files. That would produce all the files necessary for running the application using the dotnet utility or on IIS.
Publish an ASP.NET core application to a folder If not, you can just create a new ASP.NET core project, following the documentation. I assume you have a working ASP.NET core application which you want to deploy. In the process, we’ll discuss some of the concepts you should be familiar with: In this post, we’ll cover just the basics of how to build and publish an ASP.NET core 2 application to a folder using Visual Studio 2017. This is part I of the blog post series in which I share some of the ways I have learned to build and deploy an ASP.NET core 2 application to IIS running on Windows Server VM.