title: VSTS Build Not Dropping All Files for Web Application
body: <p>When I started writing this question, my problem was that after a successful VSTS Build, I wasn't able to see the files relating to my web application project for release. Only the files from certain other projects in the solution were present. However, I just came across <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38087636/building-project-in-vsts-doesnt-build-all-projects-in-solution">this question</a>, which has helped.</p>
  
  <p>I can now see the compiled .dll files for my web application project, after altering the configuration of the <em>Content</em> setting in the Build - that is, the contents of the Bin folder under that project. But I can't see anywhere the other files I need to copy the built web application to my server - the views, the scripts, the css, etc.</p>
  
  <p>I'm finding the power and flexibility of VSTS's Build and Release functionality very confusing as it's complete overkill for our requirements. Up until now, I've just right-clicked on the web app project in Visual Studio selected Publish and used the <em>File System</em> publish method. Easy. Now that I want to automate the building and deploying of the application, it's many times more complicated!</p>
  
  <p>So, can anybody tell me how I can get the solution to build in VSTS in such a way that I can then use a Copy Files task in the Release Definition to copy the files to our web server (the server isn't visible to the Internet so I'm using a locally-hosted Agent)?</p>