On May 26, 4:07=A0pm, Jo=E3o Maia <jm...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> After some testing, it seems that my initial plan does not work. I do
> delete the files, but when thesetupproject tries to compile, the
> build is unsuccessful. I get the error "Unable to build project output
> group 'Content files from <webapp>'", which actually makes sense
> because some of the content files are no longer there.
>
> Is there a workaround to this ? Can I say that I do not want some of
> the files (mainly aspx and js) to go on the build ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Joao Maia
>
> On 26 Maio, 14:31, Jo=E3o Maia <jm...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello there,
>
> > I'm developing a websetupfor a web application using Visual Studio
> > 2005, and I sometimes I need to do mysetuppartial, that is, I need
> > to select which aspx files I want to send in thesetup. The reason for
> > this is that the firstsetupof my application needs to have all the
> > files because it will be deployed in a clean machine, but once the
> > application is running, if I want to do a deployment of another
> > version of the web app, I must be able to generate anothersetupwith
> > just the aspx files that have changed instead of all the aspx's.
>
> > What I'm trying to do is this:
>
> > - Create an application where I can select which aspx files are to go
> > in thesetup.
> > - This app will run before the websetupbuild (I have build events to
> > guarantee this).
> > - This app will move the files I don't want to go in thesetuppackage
> > into a temp folder, so that the websetupwill build the solution
> > without these files
> > - The websetupproject is then built
> > - After the websetupproject is built I need to move the unwanted
> > files back from the temp folder to their original folder.
>
> > I haven't really tried this yet, I admit it seems a bit far fetched,
> > but quite frankly I cannot see any other way to do it. Are there any
> > alternatives ?
>
> > Also, is there a way to run a build event after the websetuphas
> > compiled and the msi has been generated ? I look for build events in
> > the project properties but I could not find anything.
>
> > Any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated.
>
> > Thanks in advance,
>
> >Joao Maia