Quick Tip – Including Empty Directory While Deploying a Web Application During this week I had to deploy an ASP.NET MVC 3 web application to a host environment using web deploy. The problem I faced was the deployment of an empty directory which is being used by the application. By design, when using web deploy tool in Visual Studio it skips empty directories when packaging a web application. So How can you deploy this empty directory and overcome this problem? The solution is to put an empty stub...