ASP.NET Web Deployment Projects and Subversion

If you are using both ASP.NET Web Deployment Projects and Subversion you might have come across the issue that the deployment project copies entire folders including the hidden Subversion folders called '.svn'.

To prevent files from being included in the deployment you can modify the project file by modifying the ItemGroup element. Here is an example that excludes '.svn' as well as the C# project file and the intermediate files in 'obj':

<ItemGroup>
   <ExcludeFromBuild Include="$(SourceWebPhysicalPath)\**\.svn\**\*.*" />
   <ExcludeFromBuild Include="$(SourceWebPhysicalPath)\*.csproj.*" />
   <ExcludeFromBuild Include="$(SourceWebPhysicalPath)\obj\**\*.*" />
   <!-- further exclude items here -->
</ItemGroup>