Visual Studio 2010 “Publish” does not copy Razor view files

Question

When using the built-in Publish feature of Visual Studio 2010 with a web application that includes Razor views (.cshtml or .vbhtml), the publish service does not cop

Answer 1

(This answer is mostly if someone finds this through google etc)

As @Ted Ballou pointed out you need to change output type to Content. This can be quite cumbersome if you, like me, have 100+ files in different subfolders.

Especially since you can't update multiple files at once if there's a folder included in the selection.

Instead of changing through the GUI, open the project file and modify the settings directly.

In YourProject.csproj change items like:

I used the following Regular Expression to replace all files:

Search for:

Replace with:

Now Visual Studio should treat all your changed cshtml as Content on publish.