web-publishing

Folks, In a nutshell, I want to replicate this dialog: It's a Visual Studio 2010 ASP.Net MVC project. If I execute this command, I get all the files I want, including the transformed web.configs in the "C:\ToDeploy" directory. I want to replicate this on the command line so I can use it for a QA environment build. I've seen various articles on how to do this on the command line for Remote Deploys, but I just want to do it for File System deploys. I know I could replicate this functionality using nAnt tasks or rake scripts, but I want to do it using this mechanism so I'm not repeating myself. I

I'm trying to use the new publish profile support (available in VS2012 and in VS2010 via an update) to create a continuous delivery "deployment pipeline", whereby a package/zip is made in the first "stage" and the same package is deployed to various environments using different configurations. What tasks/properties are involved in deploying an existing package using settings defined in a pubxml file, from the command line, and without causing a build? Put another way, I'd like to "publish" to a package , then later "publish" that same package to another profile without rebuilding it. (I know I

Can I exclude a folder or files when I publish a web site in Visual Studio 2005? I have various resources that I want to keep at hand in the Solution Explorer, such as alternate config files for various environments, but I don't really want to publish them to the server. Is there some way to exclude them? When using other project types, such as a .dll assembly, I can set a file's Build Action property to "None" and its Copy to Output Directory property to "Do not copy". I cannot find any similar settings for files in a web site. If the IDE does not offer this feature, does anyone have good