General VS.NET structure question

"Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB]" wrote in message
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So I guess my second question is: has anyone gotten a custom publisher to
work with a service?

Okay, experiment and learn. It seems that every time I build my solution, my
<App>.config is wiped out of the bin folder. So I try to figure out why it's
not going into the folder with all the other items in my project. I hit on
the build action property and read about it. Hmmm, perhaps I should set it
to Content instead of None? I have two text files in the project whose build
action in Content and they're getting put in the bin folder, so, along with
the infomation in MSDN, I figure this will solve the problem. Bzzzzztt!! My
<App>.config file STILL isn't copied to the bin folder. I can copy it there
manually and my custom publisher works just fine (I got my exceptions via
email!), but I'd still like to know what I need to do to make this file an
"integral" part of my app.

Before sending this, I took a look at my project's properties, and under
Configuration Properties | Deployment I found a dropdown for an override
file! My <App>.config file was available in the dropdown, so I selected it
and rebuilt the project. This has to work, right? Nope

Help?

Jeff,
Not sure about the custom publisher stuff.

Microsoft fixed a 'feature' of VS.NET 2002 in VS.NET 2003. :-|

You need to add your config file to your VS.NET project's root folder as
app.config, it needs to be named "app.config" without the quotes. When you
build your project VS.NET (both 2002 & 2003) will copy the app.config file
from the project root to your output folder and name it appropriately
(myproject.exe.config).

Be certain to put the custom publisher information in the app.config in your
project, as any app.config else where will be overwritten.

Hope this helps
Jay

"Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB]" wrote in message
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"Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB]" wrote in message
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> So I guess my second question is: has anyone gotten a custom publisher

to

> work with a service?

Okay, experiment and learn. It seems that every time I build my solution,

my

<App>.config is wiped out of the bin folder. So I try to figure out why

it's

not going into the folder with all the other items in my project. I hit on
the build action property and read about it. Hmmm, perhaps I should set it
to Content instead of None? I have two text files in the project whose

build

action in Content and they're getting put in the bin folder, so, along

with

the infomation in MSDN, I figure this will solve the problem. Bzzzzztt!!

My

<App>.config file STILL isn't copied to the bin folder. I can copy it

there

manually and my custom publisher works just fine (I got my exceptions via
email!), but I'd still like to know what I need to do to make this file an
"integral" part of my app.

Before sending this, I took a look at my project's properties, and under
Configuration Properties | Deployment I found a dropdown for an override
file! My <App>.config file was available in the dropdown, so I selected it
and rebuilt the project. This has to work, right? Nope

Help?

"Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message
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You need to add your config file to your VS.NET project's root folder as
app.config, it needs to be named "app.config" without the quotes. When you
build your project VS.NET (both 2002 & 2003) will copy the app.config file
from the project root to your output folder and name it appropriately
(myproject.exe.config).

Yeah, that was it. I was trying to do the IDE's job for it Many thanks.

Jeff,

Pardon the crosspost, but I couldn't find a generic .NET group for VS.NET.

There's microsoft.public.vsnet.general



Mattias

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