Freigeben über

Tip #105: Did you know … How to include empty directory when package a web application?

  • Artikel

By design, Visual Studio 2010 will skip the empty directory when packaging web application project using web deploy.  To get empty directory packaged and deployed, we can work around this by adding an empty stub file inside the directory to make it non-empty. Then web deploy will package and deploy the directory with the stub file.

- Xinyang Qiu |Visual Web Developer Team

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 29, 2010
    As I know this is not a VS 2010 specific problem. This was there for previous versions as well. This post explains how the developers work with this matter. But I think there should be an option from Visual Studio it self to add (or give a message about empty directories.) empty directories on users request. :)

  • Anonymous
    May 07, 2010
    Thanks for the feedback.  I've logged your suggestion in our database for us to consider it in future releases.

  • Anonymous
    March 17, 2011
    Skipping empty directories when it has been added to a project and having to add stub files is idiotic!

  • Anonymous
    April 11, 2011
    "Skipping empty directories when it has been added to a project and having to add stub files is idiotic!" +1 It's as if the people that write Visual Studio spend so much time writing it and not using it they miss out on all the little parts that need polished.

  • Anonymous
    May 30, 2011
    +1 to see this fixed in the next release. This has been more than a year ago and it could have been easily fixed imho in SP1.

  • Anonymous
    February 21, 2012
    Visual Studio 2010 will not publish empty folders. There was a bug report to Microsoft about this and they said that they would not fix it. connect.microsoft.com/.../publish-deploy-does-not-deploy-empty-folders Too bad. Because it used to work in Visual Studio 2008. Add a dummy file like dummy.txt to the directory and then the directory will be created. Note that it is not necessary to actually deploy the dummy file. It only needs to exist as part of the project in the build environment.