How do you include additional files for web publishing

Question

I am attempting to use a build project to publish files from TFS to our web server. I don't have a project file as these are html, text, js files managed outside of Visual Studio. The basis for my attempt was How do you include additional files using VS2010 web deployment packages? and while the status of the build is successful, the files never get published to the server. Has anyone every used Web Publishing to push files maintained in TFS to a server like this. I want to use the standard publishing targets so the builds are easy to maintain ongoing.

Answer 1

I think the tooling in Visual Studio that builds Web Deployment packages requires a Web Application Project.

I suggest creating a Web Application project and adding your html/js files to it, then the default publish targets should be able to build a web deploy package and publish it without problem.