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

VS 2015 accepts something like

..\..\..\DeployFiles

It will also create the folder if it is missing so your publish settings can go into source control but you can easily ignore the DeployFiles folder and its contents.