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Tyler Durden
Tyler Durden

Reputation: 516

Azure: Include unreferenced DLLs when publish

I was struggling to publish my project because some DLLs were missing. After some investigations, I found what I was looking for:

http://sedodream.com/2010/05/01/WebDeploymentToolMSDeployBuildPackageIncludingExtraFilesOrExcludingSpecificFiles.aspx

Here my code: 

  <Target Name="CustomCollectFiles">
    <Message Text="Publishing unreferenced DLLs" Importance="High" />
    <ItemGroup>
      <_CustomFiles Include="$(UnreferencedDlls)" />
      <FilesForPackagingFromProject Include="%(_CustomFiles.Identity)">
        <DestinationRelativePath>bin\%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)</DestinationRelativePath>
      </FilesForPackagingFromProject>
    </ItemGroup>
  </Target>

It is working fine now but only when I publish on local. When I try to publish on Azure, these same DLLs are missing. So I tried to add the following line:

<DestinationRelativePath>obj\Release\Package\PackageTmp\bin\%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)</DestinationRelativePath>

Because when I publish on azure, the Output says:

Copying all files to temporary location below for package/publish:
obj\Release\Package\PackageTmp.

But still, the DLLs are missing and I have no idea how to add them when I'm publishing on Azure.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 870

Answers (1)

Tyler Durden
Tyler Durden

Reputation: 516

I find a solution. The first one add the DLLs when I deploy on my local machine and the second do the same thing but when I deploy the app on Azure.

  <PropertyGroup>
    <!-- Publish on the FILE SYSTEM -->
    <CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForPackageDependsOn>
      CustomCollectFiles;
      $(CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForPackageDependsOn);
    </CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForPackageDependsOn>

    <!-- Publish on AZURE: Web Deploy -->
    <CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForMSDeployDependsOn>
      CustomCollectFiles;
      $(CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForMSDeployDependsOn);
    </CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForMSDeployDependsOn>
  </PropertyGroup>

Upvotes: 2

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