A: 

I tackled this very problem today. Since we have Final Builder handling our builds, I just created a FileSet in that with a bunch of exclusions, and then a later step in my build script copies those files to my deployment target folder.

You could reproduce the same result by just using xcopy excluding the file types you don't need on your web server.

Antony Scott  2010-07-01 16:53:10
Thanks for the response. What is xcopy? The more I look into VWD2010 the more upset I'm getting with Microsoft. In VWD2008 I could click WebSite>Publish> tell it where I wanted it to go and... boom... it worked. Now I have to go to 3rd party apps to publish a website on IIS?
quakkels  2010-07-01 17:15:42
xcopy is the old DOS command for copying multiple files / folders. You could also look at robocopy which is a server copying utility.Both are included in the operating system. Just open up a command prompt and type `xcopy` or `robocopy` and you should get a description of how to use it.
Antony Scott  2010-07-01 18:49:38
Thanks... I can see how a program like that would be nice. I tried just copying and pasting the files from my computer straight into server, that worked too. I didn't know that just building the project in vwd would be able to run if you just copy it to the server. I thought VWD did some magical thing to get the site ready for a server.
quakkels  2010-07-01 21:12:14

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