I am trying to create a project template for Visual Studio 2015. I created a ASP.NET 5 class library (under the web section of Visual studio 2015) and used the option File->Export template. When I tried to create project using the exported template, only the .xproj file gets created. The files within the template and the dependencies are not getting added. But the same procedure works fine for normal class library project.
Am I missing something.?
I found the way to do this. Open up the zipfile and edit the .vstemplate file. The line that is missing is
<CreateInPlace>true</CreateInPlace>
This line goes between
<TemplateData></TemplateData>
This solves the problem for .NET Core 1.0.1 Tooling Preview 2, VS2015 Update 3.
In order to solve this, I had to extract the output zipfile, and edit the .vstemplate file.
Removing the TargetFileName attribute from the <Project> element under <TemplateContent> worked, and the new .xproj file was correctly named.
The relevant part of the .vstemplate file looked like this:
<TemplateContent>
<Project TargetFileName="MyProject.xproj" File="MyProject.xproj" ReplaceParameters="true">
And I changed it to:
<TemplateContent>
<Project File="MyProject.xproj" ReplaceParameters="true">
The inspiration for this came from looking at the ASP.NET 5 project templates, and specifically the empty web's .vstemplate file.
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My Xamarin forms resx localization always return default language after visual studio update.
Current version is visual studio 16.9.5 and I tried 16.10 Preview version but it had the same bug.
My AppResources.resx file setting
Build action: Embedded Resource
Custom tool: PublicResXFileCodeGenerator
and other AppResources.ko.resx and AppResources.ja.resx file setting
Build action: Embedded Resource
The workaround below has already been applied but not working to me.
(https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/issues/4664#issuecomment-632986668)
Please help me.. I spent almost two days into this bug..
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My main project's name is 'Core'.
My resx files are in 'Core/Properties/' (ex] Core/Properties/AppResources.resx').
Default language is 'en' and I have also 'AppResources.ko.resx' and 'AppResources.ja.resx' in the same path as AppResources.resx.
I have solved this issue.
The problem is from the latest visual studio version and the previous workaround (https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/issues/4664#issuecomment-632986668)
The previous workaround propose to modify Android project .csproj file as belows
<Target Name="_ResolveSatellitePaths"
DependsOnTargets="_ResolveAssemblies">
<ResolveAssemblyReference
AllowedAssemblyExtensions="$(AllowedReferenceAssemblyFileExtensions)"
AssemblyFiles="#(ResolvedUserAssemblies)"
AutoUnify="$(AutoUnifyAssemblyReferences)"
FindDependencies="True"
FindRelatedFiles="False"
FindSatellites="True"
SearchPaths="$(AssemblySearchPaths)"
TargetFrameworkMoniker="$(TargetFrameworkMoniker)"
TargetFrameworkMonikerDisplayName="$(TargetFrameworkMonikerDisplayName)"
TargetFrameworkDirectories="$(TargetFrameworkDirectory)">
<Output TaskParameter="SatelliteFiles" ItemName="_AndroidResolvedSatellitePaths"/>
</ResolveAssemblyReference>
But, after updating visual studio, this workaround has created the problem.
I erased this code, and all works well!
First of all i want to say that I'm still a beginner in ASP.NET development. I think this is a simple question but I cant find an answer anywhere. The following is my problem:
I have a big ASP.NET project develped in .NET 2.0 . Now I have to update thisProject to .NET 4.0. I think it worked quite well when I loaded and converted it to .NET 4.0 with VS2010 but there is this missing reference.
The missing reference is MSutil.dll and I don't have any clue what that reference is for an I cant find the dll anywhere either. In the cs code its used like this:
using LogQuery = MSUtil.LogQueryClassClass;
using IisW3cLogInputClass = MSUtil.COMIISW3CInputContextClassClass;
using LogRecordSet = MSUtil.ILogRecordset;
using LogRecord = MSUtil.ILogRecord;
Can anyone tell me...
what this reference is for?
where I can find/download it?
how I can include/install it in my solution?
This is used to read the IIS log files and parse them.
To get that DLL follow those steps:
Download the Log Parser package, here. (free download, small .msi file)
Install the Log Parser on the machine with the your project and Visual Studio.
Browse to the location of the installed program and you will see file called "LogParser.dll" in there. Copy the file to some easy location e.g. "C:\Temp" see below why.
Go to All Programs --> Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 --> Visual Studio Tools and right click "Visual Studio Command Prompt" then choose Run as administrator.
From within the console type:
tlbimp "C:\temp\LogParser.dll" /out:"C:\temp\Interop.MSUtil.dll"
That's it - after this you will have the lost Interop.MSUtil.dll back on your machine, copy it to your project location and add reference to it like you add to any other external DLL file.
Interop.MSutil.dll is a .NET interface to LogParser.dll, primarily used to parse IIS logs.
To use it, you will need LogParser 2.2 installed and LogParser.dll registered on your machine.
Interop.MSUtil is now available via nuget so you no longer have to create it yourself, but after installation you will have to manually add a reference to the DLL in your solution's packages folder.
After adding the reference, right-click it and set Embed Interop Types to false to avoid receiving an error that the classes cannot be embedded.
It seems is an Interop object.
An Interop object is a bridge between a .Net dll and a COM object
Perhaps this link helps you
http://www.fixdllexe.com/Interop.MSUtil.dll-149085.html
Is there a way to have linked files in an ASP.NET 1.1 project?
What I did was to copy the linked file declaration from a DLL csproj to the file I want. But everytime I change the Web.csproj to add a new file, the links are deleted.
Is there a possible workaround? maybe inserting this in the build scripts or something like that?
Is this possible in .NET 2.0?
If you are using Visual Studio 2003 then linked files are not supported:
If you want to explicitly add an item as a link, you can create links
in the following projects:
The solution, Visual C++, and other similar projects support only links, so all of the items in these projects are links. The project
does not attach a link indicator (a small arrow) to the item icon in
Solution Explorer.
Visual Basic, Visual C#, and other similar projects can accommodate both linked and physical project items. Linked items in these projects
display a link indicator attached to the icons of linked project
items.
Visual Basic Web, Visual C# Web and other similar projects, do not
support links to items
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9f4t9t92(v=VS.71).aspx
You can work around this by creating a symbolic link (symlink) to the first instance of the file. The Link Shell Extension makes it easy to do so in Windows Explorer and it will even add an arrow badge to the file's icon (you have to use NTFS). Or use the command line program mklink:
> cd Project\Properties
> mklink AssemblyInfo.cs ..\..\Global\AssemblyInfo.cs
When you have created a symlink, it's as if the same file exists in both places. It's transparent to applications, including (I expect) Visual Studio 2003. This is not the same as a shortcut (.lnk file).
UPDATE: what I did in the end was to take another approach. I simply put a validation in my build script that if the csproj does not contain any reference to my AssemblyInfo files, the build failed.
This was ok because the only time they would be deleted, is when the csproj gets modified which is almost never.
I have a big project I am working on right now using Visual Studio 2008.
The solutions is composed by several project in Visual C# and Visual C++.
Clicking on a project node , and selecting from the manu the item "Project Dependencies" I can find the list of dependencies I want to export.
Do you know a way to export this list on a file someway?
Thanks
EO
They are already stored in the Visual Studio Solution and Project files.
Look for the <ProjectReference> tag.
With some post-processing, you could copy them from there and write them to another file.
You can also use the EnvDTE.BuildDependency class to retrieve the dependencies programmatically.
If you mean Project Dependency as opposed to Project Reference, the former just imposes a build ordering, they are stored in the solution file. Look for lines like
ProjectSection(ProjectDependencies) = postProject
I am currently attempting to use Visual Studio 2010 'Publish' and MSDeploy functionality to handle my web deployment needs but have run into a roadblock with regards to customizing the package depending on my build configuration.
I develop in a 32bit environment but need to create a release package for a 64bit environment, so in the 'Release' configuration I have a post build event that copies the 64bit version of a third-party dll into the bin directory overwriting the 32bit version. When I use the 'Publish' functionality, even though the correct 64bit dll is being copied to the bin directory, it doesn't get included in the package.
Is there a way to get the 'Publish' to include files that have been copied into the bin directory during a post build event?
I answered a similar but different question at How do you include additional files using VS2010 web deployment packages?.
In your scenario you are using post build event, I would recommend dropping the post build event and implement your actions using your own MSBuild targets instead of post build event. Below you'll find the text of the other answer.
From: How do you include additional files using VS2010 web deployment packages?
Great question. I just posted a very detailed blog entry about this at Web Deployment Tool (MSDeploy) : Build Package including extra files or excluding specific files.
Here is the synopsis. After including files, I show how to exclude files as well.
Including Extra Files
Including extra files into the package is a bit harder but still no bigee if you are comfortable with MSBuild, and if you are not then read this. In order to do this we need to hook into the part of the process that collects the files for packaging. The target we need to extend is called CopyAllFilesToSingleFolder. This target has a dependency property, PipelinePreDeployCopyAllFilesToOneFolderDependsOn, that we can tap into and inject our own target. So we will create a target named CustomCollectFiles and inject that into the process. We achieve this with the following (remember after the import statement).
<PropertyGroup>
<CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForPackageDependsOn>
CustomCollectFiles;
$(CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForPackageDependsOn);
</CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForPackageDependsOn>
</PropertyGroup>
This will add our target to the process, now we need to define the target itself. Let’s assume that you have a folder named Extra Files that sits 1 level above your web project. You want to include all of those files. Here is the CustomCollectFiles target and we discuss after that.
<Target Name="CustomCollectFiles">
<ItemGroup>
<_CustomFiles Include="..\Extra Files\**\*" />
<FilesForPackagingFromProject Include="%(_CustomFiles.Identity)">
<DestinationRelativePath>Extra Files\%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)</DestinationRelativePath>
</FilesForPackagingFromProject>
</ItemGroup>
</Target>
Here what I did was create the item _CustomFiles and in the Include attribute told it to pick up all the files in that folder and any folder underneath it. Then I use this item to populate the FilesForPackagingFromProject item. This is the item that MSDeploy actually uses to add extra files. Also notice that I declared the metadata DestinationRelativePath value. This will determine the relative path that it will be placed in the package. I used the statement Extra Files%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension) here. What that is saying is to place it in the same relative location in the package as it is under the Extra Files folder.
Excluding files
If you open the project file of a web application created with VS 2010 towards the bottom of it you will find a line with.
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" />
BTW you can open the project file inside of VS. Right click on the project pick Unload Project. Then right click on the unloaded project and select Edit Project.
This statement will include all the targets and tasks that we need. Most of our customizations should be after that import, if you are not sure put if after! So if you have files to exclude there is an item name, ExcludeFromPackageFiles, that can be used to do so. For example let’s say that you have file named Sample.Debug.js which included in your web application but you want that file to be excluded from the created packages. You can place the snippet below after that import statement.
<ItemGroup>
<ExcludeFromPackageFiles Include="Sample.Debug.xml">
<FromTarget>Project</FromTarget>
</ExcludeFromPackageFiles>
</ItemGroup>
By declaring populating this item the files will automatically be excluded. Note the usage of the FromTarget metadata here. I will not get into that here, but you should know to always specify that.
I found a workaround for the problem by using the ExcludeFilesFromDeployment element within the project file. I got the idea from Web Deployment: Excluding Files and Folders
So if you need to package project files as they exist in your project directory after a successful build and associated post build steps then do the following.
Edit "Package/Publish Web" project settings and
select Items to deploy to be "All files in this project folder"
Unload the project
Right click on the unloaded project and select to edit the project config
Locate the PropertyGroup element associated to the configuration setting e.g. "Release"
Within the PropertyGroup element add in the following elements and exclude files and folders you don't want in the package
<ExcludeFilesFromDeployment>*.cs;**\.svn\**\*.*;Web.*.config;*.csproj*</ExcludeFilesFromDeployment>
<ExcludeFoldersFromDeployment>.svn;Controllers;BootstrapperTasks;Properties</ExcludeFoldersFromDeployment>
Save and reload your project
This solves my problem for the time being but if there is a better solution then please let me know, as this is not ideal due to the hackery involved, but then again perhaps this is an uncommon deployment scenario?
Select your files or folders and Change Build action as Content from Properties Window.
I know its a old question but none of these worked for me .
In 2017 VS I just right clicked on the extra folder to be published and select publish it worked.
Example:
Adding the bin folder (and it's contents) to the project caused the files to be copied to the publish output directory.
For me, my issue was that I needed to place a proprietary software license file in the bin/ folder, but did not want to copy it manually each deployment.
This was using Visual Studio 2015 Professional
I know this is an old conversation but I came upon it while trying to do the same thing and I thought it would be helpful to add what I found here.
Nearly all the articles about including extra files in your publication use this method of adding the CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForPackageDependsOn or CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForMSDeployDependsOn items in the PropertyGroup and they all same something like "I added this to the end of the file ..."
This is what I did and spent an afternoon trying to find why nothing was happening until I realised there was already a PropertyGroup section at the top of the file. When I put my CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForPackageDependsOn into that section it worked fine.
Hope this saves someone time some day