Dotnet publish vs publishing in Visual Studio generates a different $(PublishDir) in the...

I'm having an issue where the $(PublishDir) value is different depending on if I publish using the command line dotnet publish -c release or if I publish within Visual Studio.

Using the command line the PublishDir will be a relative path, using Visual Studio the publishDir will be an absolute path.

Here's the Pre-publish target which shows my problem. Basically I'm trying to compile my Angular application and place the outputs in the $(PublishDir)/wwwroot folder.



Is there any way to force the $(PublishDir) value to always be an absolute path?

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