You can take you app offline during publishing which hopefully should free up the lock on the file and allow you to update it. I blogged about this a while back. The support outlined was shipped inside of the Azure SDK and Visual Studio Update. I don’t remember the exact releases but I can find … Read more
Add this to your publish profile to modify the temporary directory for package/publish: <AspnetCompileMergeIntermediateOutputPath>c:\shortPath\</AspnetCompileMergeIntermediateOutputPath>
Ok, finally figured this out. The command line you need is: msbuild path/to/your/webdirectory/YourWeb.csproj /p:Configuration=Debug;DeployOnBuild=True;PackageAsSingleFile=False You can change where the project outputs to by adding a property of outdir=c:\wherever\ in the /p: section. This will create the output at: path/to/your/webdirectory/obj/Debug/Package/PackageTmp/ You can then copy those files from the above directory using whatever method you’d like. I’ve … Read more
Exclude files and folders by adding ExcludeFilesFromDeployment and ExcludeFoldersFromDeployment elements to your project file (.csproj, .vbproj, etc). You will need to edit the file in a text editor, or in Visual Studio by unloading the project and then editing it. Add the tags anywhere within the appropriate PropertyGroup (Debug, Release, etc) as shown below: <PropertyGroup … Read more