For projects such as forms apps and class libraries you can exclude folders which reside in the directory from the project. That menu option does not seem to exist when you create a website in VS 2005, is there any way to do it?

thanks! 

i see what you mean a class library has exclude from project and i was looking at the vc web project and i cant see anything for folder exclusion

Hi jbardrof,

This is the by design behavior of website type project (The web application type project still has the “Exclude From Project” menu item). It’s because website project lack of the project file. The include/exclude information store in the web application project file (*.csproj) but website project doesn't have it.

To workaround this issue, we can set “Hidden” attribute for the file/folder which you want to exclude from project, and the refresh the project in Solution Explorer. For example:

    1. Open Windows Explorer.
    2. Local to the physical folder of your website.
    3. Right click the file/folder which you want to exclude, and then select “Properties”.
    4. Check the “Hidden” attribute.
    5. Click the “Refresh” button in the Visual Studio 2005 Solution Explorer.

I have the same problem, but its a pain having to keep hiding the folder everytime I need to bvuild the project - In the end I just excluded all the files in the folder individually 

 You can exclude the top level folder only and Visual Studio will not read the files under that directory.  This is quicker than hiding the top level folder and the sub folders. 

Simply convert those folder(s) into "application" in IIS and VS won't load those folders anymore.