I changed the Output path for some projects of my Solution and now I´m getting some errors when I Build my solution. Errors like:
Could not copy the file "MyProject....pdb" because it was not found...
How could I fix it?
(1) Please Uncheck the option "Enable the Visual Studio hosting process" from the project property->debug tab and see if that solves your issue.
(2) Please check your previous output and current output path, whether you can get the pdb file in the two folders? I suggest you delete the previous output path like bin/debug or release, and then re-open the project file, clean and rebuild the solution with the new output path, check it again.
(3) I also met this kind of issue which was related to the post-build event, so you need to check it in your side.
(4) Of course, if it is the reference between different projects, please make sure that you add the correct path for this reference and set the "copy local=true" after you change the output path.
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After changing something in my C# code, I can run it without problem. However, if I run the .exe file in WindowsFormsApplication1/bin/Debug/, I would get an error message. By checking the 'Date modified' of this .exe file, I found it wouldn't update accordingly.
I then tried to do Build/Build Solution and Rebuild Solution but the .exe file would still not be updated.
Can you tell me how to update the .exe file?
To view the output directory for your builds, right-click on the project you are trying to build and select "Properties". Under the "Build" tab you should find the following:
At the top you can also see the configuration under which your project is building (usually Debug or Release). By default, the output directory for Debug and Release builds are, respectively, "bin\Debug" and "bin\Release". EDIT: To change which build configuration is currently active, you will need to go to Build -> Configuration Manager:
Once you have checked the build directory paths and the configuration which you are building, do a Clean Solution followed by a Build Solution and your *.exe file should now be the latest version.
Hope this helps!
Alex
EDIT:
Apologies - meant also to mention that the build directory paths are relative to the project directory (the directory where the *.csproj file for your project lives). So updating the *.exe file in WindowsFormsApplication1\bin\Debug under Debug configuration with the default output directory is contingent upon WindowsFormsApplication1.csproj being contained in the WindowsFormsApplication1 directory.
Somehow I figured out why it is happening. If you have multiple projects in a solution (I assume that's the case above), check the status of "Build" checkbox in the property pages. I faced same issue when one of my three projects under solution was not refreshing whenever I rebuild the solution.
Hope this will help!
I have some library files needed for my application to work.
My application has a setup and deployment included.
I already know that in order for a library file to be added to the output directory of the application when installing, I just have to reference those libraries inside the .NET IDE before building... the only problem is that these libraries can't be referenced... So I need to be able to copy these libraries to the installation directory of my application... At the moment, I am copying these libraries manually...
Addendum
I also did try to add these library files as an Existing Item to my project and marked each library files' Copy to Output Directory to Copy if newer on their properties but still not getting the solution I want.
Update 1
Thanks for you help guys it helped me solve my problem, I managed to make the solutions you posted work except for one... #Matthew Watson's post.. I even managed to find a solution too so I wanted to share it with you also.
Heres what I did:
I opened the setup and deployment project in my application.
Under the Application Folder Tree, on it's right side, I right clicked..
then clicked Add..
then clicked File
and then browsed for the files I wanted to add to the installation directory
and click open.
But out of curiosity...I am still trying to make what #Matthew Watson posted work...
Update 2
I forgot to update this post yesterday, I already manage to make Matthew Watson's solution worked yesterday. Thank you again for all your help guys.
You can add files to your project and select their properties: "Build Action" as "Content" and "Copy to output directory" as "Copy Always" or Copy if Newer (the latter is preferable because otherwise the project rebuilds fully every time you build it).
Then those files will be copied to your output folder.
This is better than using a post build step because Visual Studio will know that the files are part of the project. (That affects things like ClickOnce applications which need to know what files to add to the clickonce data.)
You will also be more easily able to see which files are in the project because they will be listed with the source code files rather than hidden in a post-build step. And also Source Control can be used with them more easily.
Once you have added "Content" files to your project, you will be able to add them to a Visual Studio 2010 Setup and Deployment project as follows:
Go into your Setup project and add to your "Application Folder" output the Project Output called "Content Files". If you right-click the Content Files after adding them you can select "outputs" and see what it's going to copy.
Note that Setup and Deployment projects are NOT supported in Visual Studio 2012.
You can use Visual Studio Post Build Event - Copy to Relative Directory Location. Which are basically scripts that are executed on build of specified project.
So you can use it to copy binaries you need, before actually running your application.
I have a file in a folder of my C# VS2010 project marked Content and Always Copy.
When I change this file and save it, externally to VS, and then run the project, the modified file is not copied to the output. If I rebuild, then it is. My guess is that VS does not use the modified date time stamp of the file to determine whether it should be copied or not.
Am I missing something? It's driving me nuts as I'm losing 5 minutes per run.
Thank you!
Hard to explain so start by getting better diagnostics. Tools + Options, Projects and Solutions, Build and Run settings. Change the "MSBuild project build output verbosity" setting to Normal. In that same property page, ensure that the "On Run, when projects are out of date" setting is set to Always build. Look in the Output window when you press F5 or Build + Build, the _CopyOutOfDateSourceItemsToOutputDirectory task is the one that copies the file.
One possible trap when you use Project + Add Existing Item: the IDE makes a copy of the file that you selected. You might be changing the original file instead of the copy in the project directory. You'd fix that by clicking the arrow on the Add button in the dialog and selecting "Add As Link".
The behavior you are expecting can be achieved by changing the Build Action from "Content" to "Embedded Resource".
Came across this when I needed to use COMFileReference but also needed to copy the DLL to the output folder.
In the end, ending up adding the DLL twice to the project, once as Content for the copy to output folder and once as COMFileReference. Easiest way I found was to modify the .csproj xml directly.
I'm trying to publish project (tools vs2010), but cannot all the time getting the error below.
I paste to my projects files from another project and then I changed namespace (OldProjectName) to the parent project (NewProjectName). But it still getting information from somewhere about old project.
I cleaned solution, builded, rebuilded. Closed and reopened again and all the time the same error.
I'm able to build project but publish it.
Any ideas what can cause the problem?
Error 1 Copying file
obj\Debug\OldProjectName.csproj.FileListAbsolute.txt to
obj\Debug\Package\PackageTmp\obj\Debug\OldProjectName.csproj.FileListAbsolute.txt
failed. Could not find file
'obj\Debug\OldProjectName.csproj.FileListAbsolute.txt'. 0 0 NewProjectName
Open your .csproj file in notepad
Find "obj\Debug\OldProjectName.csproj.FileListAbsolute.txt"
Remove that line and save it
Open your project and try to publish it and this time you will be succeeded.
Note: if you are getting any more file like .pdb remove that as well.
Hope it will help you
Make sure the obj folder is not read only, if so change read only property of this folder to false. this worked for me.
Check the permissions to the folder obj\Debug\ if you give it write permissions, the error would go away.
Check if the folders "bin" and "obj" are checked-in to source control, if so delete those two folders in source control. There is no need to check-in these two folders to source folders. Also make sure that these folders "obj" and "bin" are deleted from your hard disk, they will be created again after a build.
Hope this will fix your issue.
It is your responsibility to make copies so you can go back to one.
Open your project file (vb/cs)proj with a notepad, and search for the missing files.
In my case I got this error when I tried to publish the project and certain files were not found.
Each publish attempt I got another file name, after checking that the file actually didn't exist in the project, I removed it from the project file, manually.
Then publish succeeded.
Delete the obj folder and build again.
Ref: http://forums.asp.net/t/1402005.aspx
Like many others these files were read only and needed to be deleted or actually able to be overwritten by VS. However, as may be the case for many others, the problem was because these files were checked in to source control. Your bin and obj folders should not be in source control. Mark them for delete and submit the changelist.
One exception to the rule is for the bin folder could be dll files that are not .Net compatible. Such as a C/C++ dll that you are using through a .Net wrapper dll. I mark them as content so that they get published and check them into source control.
I too had this problem. I resolved this by deleting files inside project bin folder (.dll and .pdb) and closed and re-opened VS .
The file named FileListAbsolute.txt was deleted from the folder obj/debug. Visual Studio can automatically recreate the file and others in the obj/debug for you.
For VS to recreate it, set the configuration of the solution and the project to debug mode. Then rebuild your solution.
To change the configuration mode to debug, from the solution explorer, right-click on the solution name and select Properties.
Select Configuration under Configuration Properties. Then select Debug from the dropdown list.
Click Apply and OK. Ensure that in Configuration Manager, the configuration mode is also a debug mode.
Then rebuild your solution.
For me using solution here: Certain Razor views not publishing
Excluding the views folder and re-including fixed it for me. So it's possible for anyone else experiencing this it may be as simple as excluding and then including the file/folder in question of your project.
I encountered this bug using VS2017 with a solution stored in OneDrive.I suspected OneDrive's sync mechanism to be the root cause of this.
When I tried to reproduce using VS2019 however it did not reappear. Looks solved in between these versions.
I have a main project directory with the following contents:
SubDirectory (Directory)
Project.sln (Solution File)
When I try manually changing SubDirectory's name in my Windows explorer, I get errors when I open the solution file. How can I rename this directory without affecting my solution?
Thanks!
Rename it in Visual studio, or edit the .csproj/.sln file with a text editor and fix the refrences.
Open the solution file in a text editor and rename all references to the old folder.
Open up the .sln file in notepad. You'll see a line like this:
Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "myproject", "myproject\myproject.csproj", "{DF81752F-37EE-4F4E-BC22-B09C8D05ED78}"
EndProject
If you want to rename the folder from myproject to newproject, you can change myproject\myproject.csproj to newproject\myproject.csproj (or whatever).
Change the name in SolutionExplorer.. it will work fine..
However it doesn't gurantee problem with Source Control or TFS you will need to resolve them manually
Your solution has the paths to your project files embedded in it, which includes the folder name. If you want to rename the folder, you have three options:
Close the solution. Rename the folder, then reopen the solution. The projects will show up as gray, and you'll need to click each one and locate the project file in the Properties window. Note that this may remove project references, but it may not. This is what I would suggest.
Open the solution and remove the project(s) within that directory. Note that this will remove any project references from any other projects that reference the project(s) that you're removing. Rename the folder, then add the project (and any project references) back.
Close the solution. Rename the folder, then open the .sln file in Notepad (or some other text editor) and fix the paths manually. This will preserve any project references.
When I have done it, I manually change it, then open the solution. You will get an error about not being able to find the project file, just choose to locate it, and it will re-map it. If you are using VSS, make sure everything is checked in first.
There are probably paths in project/solution related files that contain the old directory name. You'll either have to update those manually or find a way to rename the project from within Visual Studio.
This might help you rename the project:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3e92t91t%28v=VS.90%29.aspx
In Visual Studio solution explorer,
edit the project properties to change
the assembly name, namespaces etc.
etc. to what you want.
Rename the top
Project nodes in VS solution explorer.
Shut Visual Studio down.
Open Windows explorer and rename your
folders and .csproj files to what you
want.
With a text editor and NOT Visual
Studio, open up the
sln file,
the .csproj files and
anything else you've renamed.
do a
Find & Replace looking for the old project strings, filenames,
namespaces (if required - I suggest
you leave that bit for when all has
been transitioned) and replacing them
as required.
I'm suggesting you'll
need to be selective because I don't
know how you've named your projects
and .csproj files ;-)
Once you've done all that, quit your
text editor and try opening up your
.sln file again.
Do a Rebuild the first time to remove any artifacts from the old configuration/naming.
HTH