How to get Visual Studio 'Publish' functionality to include files from post build event?

Question

I am currently attempting to use Visual Studio 2010 \'Publish\' and MSDeploy functionality to handle my web deployment needs but have run into a roadblock with regards to cu

Answer 1

I know its a old question but none of these worked for me .

In 2017 VS I just right clicked on the extra folder to be published and select publish it worked.

Example: