Hello,

Environment: Visual Studio 2005 SP1, Web Deployment Projects installed

I hava Web Application project (updated from Visual Studio 2003) and a Web Deployment for that web application. The problem is when I build the deployment project, far more files than necessary end up in the .\debug directory. Effectively, all files from the original web application copied to the .\debug directory, including the *.csproj files, the *.resx files and so on.

 Any idea what could cause this?

Best regards,

Henning Krause

Hi Henning,

Right click the web deployment project and open the project file. See if there are any build tasks which are copying all source files to the deployed directory.

If not, then try adding the project again and see if the problem persists.

Vivek

Hello,

 I can't find any additional build files in the build file.

 Here is the content:

<!--
  Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Project
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=55111
-->
<Project DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
    <Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">AnyCPU</Platform>
    <ProductVersion>8.0.60403</ProductVersion>
    <SchemaVersion>2.0</SchemaVersion>
    <ProjectGuid>{1A0F2EF3-DBB1-4091-80E2-DF6373E18D2B}</ProjectGuid>
    <SourceWebPhysicalPath>..\WebConfiguration</SourceWebPhysicalPath>
    <SourceWebProject>{C2DC21FE-167D-4C0B-A128-2A464CA6D91F}|Addins\Core\WebConfiguration\CoreConfiguration.csproj</SourceWebProject>
    <SourceWebVirtualPath>/CoreConfiguration.csproj</SourceWebVirtualPath>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
    <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
    <OutputPath>.\Debug</OutputPath>
    <EnableUpdateable>false</EnableUpdateable>
    <UseMerge>true</UseMerge>
    <SingleAssemblyName>CoreConfiguration</SingleAssemblyName>
    <KeyFile>..\..\..\Keys\keyfile.snk</KeyFile>
    <UseWebConfigReplacement>false</UseWebConfigReplacement>
    <ContentAssemblyName>
    </ContentAssemblyName>
    <DeleteAppCodeCompiledFiles>false</DeleteAppCodeCompiledFiles>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
    <DebugSymbols>false</DebugSymbols>
    <OutputPath>.\Release</OutputPath>
    <EnableUpdateable>false</EnableUpdateable>
    <UseMerge>true</UseMerge>
    <SingleAssemblyName>CoreConfiguration</SingleAssemblyName>
    <KeyFile>..\..\..\Keys\keyfile.snk</KeyFile>
    <UseWebConfigReplacement>false</UseWebConfigReplacement>
    <ContentAssemblyName>
    </ContentAssemblyName>
    <DeleteAppCodeCompiledFiles>false</DeleteAppCodeCompiledFiles>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
  </ItemGroup>
  <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\WebDeployment\v8.0\Microsoft.WebDeployment.targets" />
  <!-- To modify your build process, add your task inside one of the targets below and uncomment it.
       Other similar extension points exist, see Microsoft.WebDeployment.targets.-->
  <Target Name="BeforeBuild">
  </Target>
  <Target Name="BeforeMerge">
  </Target>
  <Target Name="AfterMerge">
   <Copy SourceFiles="@(PrecompiledOutput)" DestinationFolder="$(Destination)" />
  </Target>
  <Target Name="AfterBuild">
  </Target>
</Project>

 Addtionally, I have checked the WebApplication project, but those files which appear in the output folder do have a build action set to "None".

 Any ideas?

The build file seems fine. Btw, the .resx files are copied if you have them under App_LocalResources folder. Also, no .cs file should be copied. If you can see .cs files too then you have a problem, else copying of .sln and project files apart from obj folder is a problem with WAP projects. See this similar thread:

http://forums.asp.net/thread/1219284.aspx

HTH,

Vivek