Where is Visual Studio storing Publish Profiles?

Normally any publish profile store in particular project.

For that you have to look at following location.

1. Go to that project.
2. Project has special folder call Properties
3. Inside that there is a folder called PublishProfiles ( Something similar)

I also had some difficulty in getting my profile deletions to stick ... Visual Studio (2017) doesn't seem to be able to do it from Solution Explorer.

My latest attempt is to go to Source Control Explorer, open up the /Properties/PublishProfiles folder, and delete and commit the unwanted profiles from there. So far so good :)