To remember: .net web app deployment

Jyotsna — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:55:16 +0000

Problem:
While creating an installer for a .net web application, we usually follow a practice of adding a web deployment project and then adding the pre-compiled web output to a web setup project. An observation is that the precompiled web output contains project files, version control system files if any and debug symbols as well.

Solution:
Find a way to remove the files from precompiled web output. How: Open the web deployment project file and add following so that ItemGroup section looks like following. This example is considering SVN as a version control system.

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To remember: .net web app deployment