WebApplication publish to relative filesystem path

Question

I\'m setting up a publish to a relative path for testing locally (especially xml config transformations). Each developer has their own path to the checked out project and I\

Answer 1

For those using Visual Studio 2012 and the new publish configuration file (Properties/PublishProfiles/Local.pubxml) you can use this syntax in the file itself:

  
    FileSystem
    
    $(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\..\obj\publish
    True
  

Be aware that the $(MSBuildThisFileDirectory) property will resolve to the Local.pubxml directory. From there you should traverse up to get where you need to be.