title: How do I deploy a theme to a SharePoint site?
body: <p>I've got a SharePoint 2010 feature that I'm upgrading to SharePoint 2013.  In 2010, I'm creating a virtual directory in IIS for a theme that my site uses.  The theme consists of a .css and a .skin file in an App_Themes virtual directory on the site's root.  I create the virtual directory through a feature activation routine.  </p>
  
  <p>In 2013, I'd like to eliminate the creation of virtual directories.  Ideally, I'd like SharePoint to host what was in my App_Themes virtual directory.  Is there a way to do that?  In 2010, creating the App_Themes virtual folder enabled me to use this theme in the web.config pages element like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;pages enableSessionState="false" enableViewState="true" **theme="DefaultTheme"**  enableViewStateMac="true" validateRequest="false" pageParserFilterType="Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPPageParserFilter, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" asyncTimeout="7" enableEventValidation="false" viewStateEncryptionMode="Never"&gt;
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  <p>Is there a way for me reference a theme in the web.config without creating a virtual directory for my site?</p>