TeamCity not deploying App_Data folder

Hello all,

I am using Teamcity (TeamCity Professional 7.1 (build 23907)) to deploy an ASP.NET MVC 3 (C#) application to my production and QA servers via web deploy.
The whole process is working as expected except that TeamCity doesn't deploy an XML file located in the App_Data folder. If I deploy my site from Visual Studio 2010, the App_Data folder is created and the XML file is copied into it, but not by teamcity deployment.

Other:
- Build action for the XML file is set as content and VS 2010 deploys without issues.
- The XML file is properly added to Subversion's repository.
- Also posted on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11795297/teamcity-not-deploy-app-data-folder

Any help will be greatly appreciated,