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+#See https://aka.ms/customizecontainer to learn how to customize your debug container and how Visual Studio uses this Dockerfile to build your images for faster debugging.
+
+FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:8.0 AS base
+USER app
+WORKDIR /app
+EXPOSE 8080
+EXPOSE 8081
+
+FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:8.0 AS build
+ARG BUILD_CONFIGURATION=Release
+WORKDIR /src
+COPY ["API/API.csproj", "API/"]
+COPY ["API_DbDataManager/API_DbDataManager.csproj", "API_DbDataManager/"]
+COPY ["API_Services/API_Services.csproj", "API_Services/"]
+COPY ["Entities/Entities.csproj", "Entities/"]
+COPY ["Model/Model.csproj", "Model/"]
+COPY ["DbContextLib/DbContextLib.csproj", "DbContextLib/"]
+COPY ["StubbedContextLib/StubbedContextLib.csproj", "StubbedContextLib/"]
+COPY ["API_Mapping/API_Mapping.csproj", "API_Mapping/"]
+COPY ["API_Model/API_Model.csproj", "API_Model/"]
+RUN dotnet restore "./API/API.csproj"
+COPY . .
+WORKDIR "/src/API"
+RUN dotnet build "./API.csproj" -c $BUILD_CONFIGURATION -o /app/build
+
+FROM build AS publish
+ARG BUILD_CONFIGURATION=Release
+RUN dotnet publish "./API.csproj" -c $BUILD_CONFIGURATION -o /app/publish /p:UseAppHost=false
+
+FROM base AS final
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY --from=publish /app/publish .
+ENTRYPOINT ["dotnet", "API.dll"]
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