Build succeeds, but publish fails

Question

Up until two days ago, I was able to use Visual Studio 2010\'s \"Publish Web\" option by right clicking on my project and clicking the publish button on the context menu. No

Answer 1

I recently faced the same issue. And I actually traced it by searching the file which was missing.

Reason for the error : In visual studio I had included the file and later on deleted it from file system.(but not from visual studio). VS had still had the reference to that file. So once I deleted the reference from VS I was able to publish successfully !