Question

is there any way that we can tell visual Studio 2010 MSDeploy to ignore some of the files and folders withing the project? currently, the way I do is to exclude things from the project so that they won’t be deployed.

as mercurial does, a file like .hgignore would be great here.

Answer 1

You can do this by using the command line parameter -skip.

For directories:

-skip:objectName=dirPath,absolutePath=REGEX

For files:

-skip:objectName=filePath,absolutePath=REGEX

Hope this helps.