Exclude Files and Folders from WDP Output
Web Deployment Projects (WDP) allows you to pre-compile your web into binaries and further also allows you to merge the assemblies produced in the format that you like. In my earlier posts I had talked about various WDP features and the latest release of WDP for VS 2008. You can read more about this here By default in the WDP output you will find project files (.csproj/.vbproj), user files (.user), .PDB, obj folders and other artifacts which are not required for web to run. It is pretty easy to get rid of these files automatically by following these simple steps: Step 1 - Open WDP project file for editing Open WDP project file by right clicking on the WDP project and clicking "Open Project File" Step 2 - Exclude
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