Exclude files from web site publish in Visual Studio

Question

Can I exclude a folder or files when I publish a web site in Visual Studio 2005? I have various resources that I want to keep at hand in the Solution Explorer, such as alte

Answer 1

For Visual Studio 2017, WebApp Publish, first create a standard file system publish profile. Go to the App_Data\PublishProfiles\ folder and edit the [profilename].pubxml file.

Add

[file1.ext];[file2.ext];[file(n).ext]

under the tag You can only specify this tag once, otherwise it will only take the last one's values.

Example:

  
    FileSystem
    Release
    Any CPU
    
    True
    True
    C:\inetput\mysite
    False
    web.config;mysite.sln;App_Code\DevClass.cs;
  

Make sure that the tag DeleteExistingFiles is set to False