Visual Studio 2012 Web Publish doesn’t copy files
Same problem. The workaround was changing the publish settings from Release to Debug. Re-publish and then change back to Release…
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Use Visual Studio web.config transform for debugging [duplicate]
OK, with the understanding that web.debug.config & web.release.config are for package/publish only. I have come up with a way in which to enable what you are trying to do. I’ve blogged about it at https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/asp-net-web-projects-web-debug-config-web-release-config/. Here is the summary. Now let’s see how we can enable what the question asker wants to do. To recap, … Read more