title: Better alternative to Web Deploy Projects
body: <p>I have a solution with a fair few projects, 3 of them web-based (WCF in IIS / MVC site).  When the solution builds, it dumps each of the components of this distributed system in a 'Build' folder.  Running the 'configurator' part of the whole output will set up the system in the cloud automatically.  It's very neat :)  However, the Web Deploy Projects are a major pain.  They "build" (i.e. deploy) every, single, time I build - even when no changes have been made to their respective projects.</p>
  
  <p>Changed a single line of code?  Look forward to waiting around a minute for the 3 web projects to redeploy.</p>
  
  <p>[These projects are VERY straightforward at the moment - two have a single .svc and one .ashx file - the other is an MVC app with ~5 views]</p>
  
  <p>I realise I can change solution configurations to not 'build' them, but I've been doing that and it's very easy to log on the next day and forget about it, and spend a couple of hours tracking down bugs in distributed systems due to something simply having not been built.</p>
  
  <p>Why I use Web Deploy Projects?  Well, because I need all pages + binaries from the web project.  The build output for the project itself is the 'bin' folder, so no pages.  The entire project folder?  It has .cs, .csproj and other files I don't want included.</p>
  
  <p>This will be building on build servers eventually, but it's local at the moment.  But I want a quick way of getting the actual output files from the web project to my target folder.  Any ideas?</p>