Are you getting it when batch=false?

For deploy ment you cando two things to fix this.
1. If you precompiling you should be OK

2. Identfy where the circular reference is coming from, normally when a file in Folder1 referring to a file in folder2 and totally different file in folder2 referring back to another file in folder1 you may see this. This is because by default all files in a folders tends to get built into single assembly. You can split some files into another folder to avoid this.

During compilation asp.net compiler try to batch some pages together to prduce a single assembly, By default all pages in a folder is built into a single assembly. so if  file1 in folder1 refer to another file2 in folder2 and  file1 in folder2 referring to file2 in folder1 can cause circular refernce issue.

There are couple of way you can deploy the web to production server.
1. Source deployment, you can copy your entire site to the production machine.
2. Precompile, Use menu build->Publish website built assemblies are deployed in this case.

If you have batch=false build process will be slower. Thats why if you use second method in this case.

Did you ever find a solution?

I have got "circular file references are not allowed" when I try to deploy a project using the VS2005 Web Deployment Projects BETA. The webapp compiles fine in VS but when I depliy I get a this error message.

Thanks

Hello,

This is puzzling. Could you please enter an MSDN feedback bug at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/ and submit a zip containing your web site (if possible) or at least the master page and a page or two that uses it? This will allow us to officially track the issue internally.

Thanks!

sdj0103, where is your usercontrol defined? I think it's likely that you have some pages at application root that references this usercontrol in a separate folder, and that usercontrol references the masterpage in the root folder, therefore this causes the circular reference.

If this is the reason, you should consider moving masterpage file to a different folder than the root or usercontrol. Thus the pages and usercontrol can both depend on the masterpage batch assemblies without the circular reference.

If this does not solve your problem, could you send me your repro files so I can investigate?

Thanks,

Ting

Ting,

Our user controls are a couple of directories in (/xxxproj/UserControls/) from the root.  The masterpage was in the root, but by your advice I moved it over to a new directory.  I changed all references (563 occurrences) to the new location and still have the same circular reference error when I build with batch=true.  The error points to user controls with the directive:

<%@ Reference VirtualPath="~/SystemFiles/MasterPages/MasterPage.master"%>

I still recommend you enter an MSDN feedback bug and include your current folder structure, a sample user control and the master page. This will allow us to review it with the whole team (including Ting) and track it officially.

Thanks,

Have submitted my solution to MSDN Online FDBK42439

Circular file references are not allowed" when using deploying using VS2005 Web Deployment Projects BETA

Thanks