Can't find the Publish Website Option in Visual Studio 2012 Express Web

Question

I created an Empty Website (not a project) using File > New Website > Aps.net Empty Web Site. Usually when I click on Build, there is an option to "Publish Web Site". However, I don't see it here. All I can see is build and rebuild solution. What am I doing wrong? Even when I right click on the website, it just gives me an option to Build, but not Publish. I previously was using VS 2010, and it has the Publish option.

Solution

Publishing is only support for web application projects, not web site projects.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd547590.aspx