publish empty directories to a web application in VS2010 web project
Often I need to publish a web project preserving a directory tree even if the directories are empty, for example, directories to hold uploaded files. If I publish my app using the VS2010 publish command, the empty directories are not created on the remote filesystem, on the web server.
Is there a way to force VS to create certain folders, albeit empty, on the target directory? thanks!
Answer
No this is not possible I'm afraid we had the same problem. You need to create a placeholder.txt file in each empty directory if you want the precompilation tool to generate these empty folders. Failing that you can create a command line app that will create the folders in your post build events (but only if you are using web application project not web site project).
Hope this helps.