How do I keep  project (.csproj) and solution (.sln) files from being copied to the release folder? 

That is a nice suggestion -- I've gone ahead and entered a Design Change Request (DCR) 590603 to consider it for a future release.

Thanks!

thisisafish:

[ExcludeFromBuild Include="$(SourceWebPhysicalPath)\*.scc"/]

According to http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=SCC

Program and/or Extension Function:

A special file called MSSCCPRJ.SCC is created in your working folder when Visual SourceSafe works with Visual Studio projects and solutions. The default MSSCCPRJ.SCC settings *.VBP, *.MAK, and *.DSP ensure that whenever you get or add a file with these extensions, SourceSafe creates the MSSCCPRJ.SCC file so that SourceSafe integration in Visual Studio works correctly for these files.

Also, when any Visual SourceSafe operation puts a copy of a file on your local drive, it creates or updates a file called VSSVER.SCC in the working folder. That file lets VSS determine which files in that folder have and haven't changed.

Since *.scc files are not used by ASP.NET, I would recommend not deploying them. The following will exclude all *.scc files in the root folder and subfolder, and (as a bonus) exclude DummyFile.mak from the root folder only. Add this under the Project element in the deployment project file. Remember to replace the square brackets with angle brackets. You can find info like this in the WDP white paper found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/web_deployment_projects.asp

[ItemGroup]
  [ExcludeFromBuild Include="$(SourceWebPhysicalPath)\**\*.scc"/]
  [ExcludeFromBuild Include="$(SourceWebPhysicalPath)\DummyFile.mak"/]
[/ItemGroup]

<ItemGroup>
   <ProjFiles Include="$(OutputPath)\*.csproj*" />
</ItemGroup>

<Target Name="AfterBuild">
   <!-- Strip out stuff we don't want -->
   <RemoveDir Directories="$(OutputPath)\Properties" />
   <RemoveDir Directories="$(OutputPath)\obj" />
   <Delete Files="@(ProjFiles)" />

   <!-- Move site to deployment destination -->
   <Copy SourceFiles="@(PrecompiledOutput)" DestinationFiles="@(PrecompiledOutput->'$(DeploymentPath)\%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')"
          Condition="'$(DeploymentPath)' != ''" />
</Target>

The following do NOT work for eliminating .svn folders:

I would settle for excluding all folders with an attribute of Hidden

Thanks,

Steele Price
MVP - VB
http://steeleprice.net

Steele,

Here's what I use to remove .svn folders; a bit klugey but it seems to work fine.  For some reason the ** wildcard doesn't work on the .svn folder at the project root, so I just break that one out separately. 

Hi,

Combining mpowell and steele's, this is working for me:

ExcludeFromBuild Include="$(SourceWebPhysicalPath)\.svn\**\*.*;$(SourceWebPhysicalPath)\**\.svn\**\*.*"

(add the outer brackets - never sure if they work in posts)

- Bob

goodeye:

Combining mpowell and steele's, this is working for me:

ExcludeFromBuild Include="$(SourceWebPhysicalPath)\.svn\**\*.*;$(SourceWebPhysicalPath)\**\.svn\**\*.*"

I can also confirm that this is working to remove the .svn folders.

I also found that I could not build a web deployment project if my solution included a C++ project as it was having trouble accessing the .ncb intellisense file.  I found that adding the following will work around this:

 <ExcludeFromBuild Include="$(SourceWebPhysicalPath)\*.ncb" />