How do I exlcude a particular folder from the copying process in a Web Depolyment project?

Question

I am suing VS 2005 and a Web Deployment project. The problem is that the build process takes a very long time because the deployment process copies my images folder to the deployment directory. The images folder is small in size but has thousands of files. I want to keep the images in my development folder so that I can see if the linking to the images in the HTML works. However I never upload the images because they are already there. So I am ideally wanting to exclude that folder from the deployment process.

Is there a easy way to do this?

Answer 1

This SO post mentions an addin (Web Deployment addin) that should allow you to exclude items from the build process.

You can also go about excluding items by manually editing the Web Deployment project file. Look under the Customizing Web Deployment Projects heading here...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479568.aspx