Skip XML documentation files with Web Deploy

Question

I\'m trying to publish a .NET web service using Web Deploy. Currently it\'s including XML documentation files in the package. I\'ve unchecked \"XML documentation file\" in t

Answer 1

This will globally disable generation of XML documentation:

msbuild some.web.sln /p:DocumentationFile=""

To skip *.xml files with MSDeploy.exe:

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:contentPath=c:\sourcedir -skip:objectName=filePath,absolutePath=.*.xml -dest:contentPath=c:\newdir