How do I include files external to solution directory in web deploy package?

Question

Referring to this document
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/visual-studio-publish-profiles?view=aspnetcore-5.0

Does this instruction for including files work for ASP.NET framework publish profile? If not is there an equivalent document for ASP.NET Framework?

I tried adding that section to my publish profile <ResolvedFileToPublish>
But nothing happened. My file did not get copied.

Answer 1

Hi @erotavlas ,
The following link is about ASP.NET Web Deployment using Visual Studio: Deploying Extra Files：
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/web-forms/overview/deployment/visual-studio-web-deployment/deploying-extra-files

In Visual Studio, open Staging.pubxml.
At the end of the file, before the closing </Project> tag, add the following markup:

<ItemGroup>  
      <_CustomFiles Include="..\ExtraFiles\**\*" />  
      <FilesForPackagingFromProject Include="%(_CustomFiles.Identity)">  
        <DestinationRelativePath>%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)</DestinationRelativePath>  
      </FilesForPackagingFromProject>  
</ItemGroup>  

Best regards,
Lan Huang

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