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Matt Goyder
Matt Goyder

Reputation: 93

UWP Deploy Assets from arbitrary path

I want to avoid duplicating 400+ files in the Assets folder of my UWP App project folder. I want to tell VS to take files from an arbitrary location in my source tree, and use those in the Assets folder, preserving folder structure etc for deployment. I don't even mind setting the pathing manually in the project file properties if I must.

Is there a way to do this? The best I got was to right click on Assets\BlahFilter -> Add -> Existing Item. This results in the file appearing in the Solution treeview in the place I expect, but when deploying, the file appears in the root of AppX folder, ignoring any subfolder (filter) structure specified above.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 276

Answers (1)

Matt Goyder
Matt Goyder

Reputation: 93

I fixed this. You can use a "Custom Build Step" and treat the output as content. This will result in VS packaging that output directory's contents in the final AppX package. You can specify a folder, and all sub-folders will be automatically copied. The build command can be blank, or something innocuous like 'echo "blah"'

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Upvotes: 1

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