<p>It's really quite annoying as they are not part of the project.</p>

[{'answer_id': 50329, 'author': 'pete blair', 'author_id': 5119, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5119', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>The Visual Studio Web Deployment addin lets you exclude folders and more. \n<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/aa336619.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">VS2005</a>\n<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0AA30AE8-C73B-4BDD-BB1B-FE697256C459&amp;displaylang=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">VS2008</a></p>\n\n<p>Also a decent writeup on the <a href="http://www.codedigest.com/Articles/VisualStudio/126_Web_Deployment_Project_for_Visual_Studio_2005_and_2008.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Web Deployment addin</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 1842203, 'author': 'vincentw56', 'author_id': 143058, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/143058', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I know this is really old, but maybe someone else will be helped with my reply.</p>\n\n<p>I found the solution here: <a href="http://www.meadow.se/wordpress/?p=137" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.meadow.se/wordpress/?p=137</a></p>\n\n<p>Basically, add these lines to the bottom of your web deployment project file above the  tab.</p>\n\n<p>\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  </p>\n\n<p>Just put your folder or file in there too and it will not be copied over.</p>\n'}]
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