Question

I want to have a virtual application inside a site. I have modified my ServiceDefinition.csdef as

<Site name="Web">
        <VirtualApplication name="MyVirtualApp" physicalDirectory="[path to my other web app]" />
        <Bindings>
          <Binding name="HttpIn" endpointName="HttpIn" />          
        </Bindings>
      </Site>

When I create the package, I see that it includes .cs files obj folder too. Which is useless. I don’t want these files to be included in my package file(.cspkg).

What should I do so that when I publish, such type of files should not be included in the package file?

Answer 1

As a workaround, I created a Web Deployment Project. To exclude files in the output, you need to put

<ExcludeFromPackageFiles Include="[your file]">
    <FromTarget>Project</FromTarget>
</ExcludeFromPackageFiles>

And in the ServiceDefinition.csdef I specified the output path for web deployment project

<VirtualApplication name="MyVirtualApp" physicalDirectory="[output path of my web deployment project]" />