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How do I prevent Visual Studio 2008 (standard edition) from publishing the App_Data folder? I can't have the contents of App_Data published because it ruthlessly overwrites the production data.

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Check out if this post might help.

Darin Dimitrov
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The publish dialog has a checkbox option at the bottom to "Include files from the App_Data folder".

hypoxide
I am not seeing this checkbox. I have VS 2008 standard edition.
Josh Stodola
That's weird. Maybe your project is a web site and it only works with web applications?
hypoxide
Yes it is a web site. Is that a problem?
Josh Stodola