Along with .Net libraries come often XML files containing the library documentation (this XML is used for intellisense or for further documentation generation). By default, the XML files associated to referenced libraries get copied in the /bin directory of the webapp which is good because it enables intellisense. Yet, at publish time, those XML gets included in the publish process. Even if they do not break anything, those files can be quite heavy (several MB for well documented libraries), thus can significantly slow down the publish process.

Is there any way to automatically excludes those XML files to get included while publishing the webapp?

Thanks in advance,
Joann?s

Lokad.com, sales forecasting provider