Jan 11

Written by: Steve Gray
1/11/2010 1:38 PM 

Recently Microsoft announced 'Web Deployment Projects', and I'm really liking the whole concept. There is a lot of stuff on http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/default.aspx, but one thing that I had a hard time finding was how to include '.lic' (license)files in my project. Thanks to 'Girijesh' for pointing me in the right direction.

After spending some time on forums.asp.net, I found the solution, which I have repeated here so that I don't loose it.

Just edit your web.config compilation settings:

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <compilation>
            <buildProviders>
                <remove extension=".lic"/>
                <add extension=".lic" 
                 type="System.Web.Compilation.ForceCopyBuildProvider"/>
            </buildProviders>
        </compilation>
    </SYSTEM.WEB>
</configuration>

 

This will force all *.lic files to be copied when publishing/precompiling your site.

I found the above at http://ocegtech.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_ocegtech_archive.html, another good read.