More info on publish links in Visual Studio 2012

More info on publish links in Visual Studio 2012: Within the web publishing tools in Visual Studio there are a few places where we point to more resources. For example if you open a VS publish profile (.pubxml) file you will see a link in the comments pointing to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=208121 . Note: you can find the VS publish profiles in your web project under Properties\PublishProfiles or My Project\PublishProfiles This is an “FWLink” and we can set the destination URL to whatever value we want. In this case the FWLink points to How to: Edit Deployment Settings in Publish Profile (.pubxml) Files and the .wpp.targets File in Visual Studio Web Projects . In some cases the FWLink ends up pointing to a blog post instead of a formal doc page. I will point a few FWLinks to the...(read more)

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