MSBuild publish website with embedded resources

Question

I'm using the command-line to call msbuild to generate a published version of a website using this command:

msbuild.exe /t:ResolveReferences;Compile;_CopyWebApplication /p:OutDir=dir/bin/ 
    /p:WebProjectOutputDir=dir/ /p:Debug=false /p:Configuration=Release 
    Website.csproj

This works fine other than the embedded resources not being present in the Website.dll. If I do the publish via Visual Studio it includes the embedded resources. Is there a flag I'm missing?

Answer 1

An extra target is required like so:

msbuild.exe /t:PrepareResources;ResolveReferences;Compile;_CopyWebApplication 
    /p:OutDir=dir/bin/ /p:WebProjectOutputDir=dir/ /p:Debug=false 
    /p:Configuration=Release Website.csproj

Answer 2

It appears

/t:PrepareResources

calls all the targets youve added to your msbuild call, try that

heres the top few levels of what gets called

PrepareResources 
    PrepareResourceNames
        AssignTargetPaths
        SplitResourcesByCulture
        CreateManifestResourceNames
        CreateCustomManifestResourceNames
    ResGen
        ResolveAssemblyReferences
        SplitResourcesByCulture
        BeforeResGen
        CoreResGen
        AfterResGen
    CompileLicxFiles