Visual Studio 2010: How to exclude folder/files from “Build Deployment Package”?

Question

Is it possible to exclude specific files or folders from \"Build Deployment Package\" function in VS 2010?

In VS 2008 it was possible with Web Deployment package, un

Answer 1

just to clarify the ItemGroup include should be after after the following import in your .csproj:

eg.

  
    Project
  

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi has a good post on this: http://sedodream.com/2010/05/01/WebDeploymentToolMSDeployBuildPackageIncludingExtraFilesOrExcludingSpecificFiles.aspx