Exclude a folder from publishing for a website, not a web application project in Visual Studio 2012

Question

I cannot find a way to exclude folders for a web application project on the Internet: http://www.asp.net/web-forms/overview/deployment/advanced-enterprise-web-deployment/excluding-files-and-folders-from -deployment

I can also find a way to exclude files from publishing for a website on the Internet: Exclude files from a website in Visual Studio

And I can find ONE way to exclude folders from publishing for a website on the Internet: http://forums.asp.net/t/1179077.aspx?Exclude+Folder+from+Website+in+Visual+Studio

The final solution says that you can rename your folder by adding an underscore, and the publication will ignore it.

But I can’t rename my folder because there are web links that rely on this folder and system code that relies on this folder name.

Is there any other way to exclude a folder from a publication for a website, rather than a web application project?

** Note. I have a .tfignore file but Publish does not read it.

Answer 1

You tried to edit the project file, for example..csproj and adding the following line for any og file folder that should be excluded from the publishing process.