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  1. I am transitioning my web application solution from xcopy deployment to Web Deploy deployment.
  2. I have a PostBuild action that generates files the web app needs at runtime.
  3. I want to use the 'Only files needed to run this application' option.

The generated files are, of course, not in the solution - which means that they don't get picked up by the setting above (which I want to use in order to avoid a long, long, ugly list of files-to-exclude). I know that there's a way to exclude files and folders explicitly, but is there a way to include files explicitly?

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Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi would seem to disagree with the current answer.

http://sedodream.com/2010/05/01/WebDeploymentToolMSDeployBuildPackageIncludingExtraFilesOrExcludingSpecificFiles.aspx

According to this article you can modify the project file / create your own targets file that will include a specific file or folder by tying into the current build pipeline.

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No such mechanism exists. The best practice is to set up the aforementioned long list of exclusions, and use the "all files" option.

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