Until now, I have used Web Deployment Projects within Visual Studio for precompiling my web applications, and I have then manually copied/ftp'd files to the live server.
I've been looking at the Build > Publish feature within Visual Studio (along with Web.Config transformations for Web.Release.Config etc.) and have it working so as when I publish, it outputs the files locally, but when I look at the contents of that folder, all of the ASPX files are there in full, as opposed to 'stub' files being generated (as they are when the project is precompiled, like when I use Web Deployment Projects). I presume this is because the project hasn't been pre-compiled. I can't see an option to enable pre-compilation though, on either the web application property pages, or under the publish dialog.
How do I go about using Visual Studio's Publish facility (to take advantage of web.config transformations) but outputting a precompiled build?
