Hi There

I would like to know how to publish orchard cms to a file system from VS 2012.

I have set up the project settings to "deploy all files in the folder" and to exclude any debug symbols.
The problem is that the created folders is over 500mb and all the obj folders in the core project and modules are not excluded.
Also the cs pages have not been compiled to dlls.

I was told that build.cmd can do this correctly but when I run it nothing happens.

Is there any way to publish and compile the solution correctly so that it is not so large or could anybody point me in the direction on how to use build.cmd correctly.

Also If I try and precompile the solution before publishing I get an object reference error.

Thanks
Stanton

Right: do not set it up to deploy all files.

http://docs.orchardproject.net/Documentation/Building-and-deploying-Orchard-from-a-source-code-drop

You can also right-click on the Orchard.Web project and build package. It will do the right thing.