Deployment/publish issues

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GaryDean

Regardless if I use the Publish feature of vs2005 or the addin Web
Deployment Project I can't seem to get the necessary files deployed. For
instance my bin directory has several .licx files but neither tool is smart
enough to deploy those files so I have to copy them manually after
deployment.

Also, I would like to install the necessary Crystal dlls onto the target
server but there seems no place to specify additional files to deploy.

How can I get either Publish or Web Deployment to copy the files necessary
to deploy the site?
 
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Walter Wang [MSFT]

Hi Gary,

The Web Application Project or Web Deployment Project file is msbuild
project file, therefore it can be modified to include custom action to copy
additional files.

1) Right-click on your Web Deployment Project in Solution Explorer, select
"Open Project File", this will open the xml source of the project file

2) Before the closing tag </Project>, add following content:

<ItemGroup>
<LicenseFiles
Include="$(SourceWebPhysicalPath)\Bin\*.licx"></LicenseFiles>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="AfterBuild">
<Copy SourceFiles="@(LicenseFiles)"
DestinationFolder="$(OutputPath)Bin">
</Copy>
</Target>


This will copy all *.licx files from your source web site's Bin
subdirectory to the destination folder's Bin subdirectory.

Hope this helps.

Here's some documents for your reference:

#ScottGu's Blog : VS 2005 Web Application Projects, MSBuild, and Continuous
Integrations
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/06/02/VS-2005-Web-Application-Pr
ojects_2C00_-MSBuild_2C00_-and-Continuous-Integrations.aspx

#Copy Task
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3e54c37h.aspx



Regards,
Walter Wang ([email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Walter Wang [MSFT]

Hi Gary,

What do you think of above suggestion? Please feel free to let me know if
there's anything else I can help.


Regards,
Walter Wang ([email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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