Custom web.config in Visual Studio Setup Project

Question

Hi,

In the Setup Project I have 2 web.config files: web.config - used during the development and web_dist.config - the one that should be included into Setup Project.

I must be sure the the Setup project will NOT include the web.config and will always include web_dist.config.

In the File System -> Web Application Folder I have added the Content Files from the project.
Also included the web_dist.config and mapped it to the web.config.

But this gives the warning:

WARNING: Two or more objects have the same target location ('[targetdir]\web.config')

And the actual config file included is web.config and not web_dist.config.

What would be the best option to include the web_dist.config (and named as web.config in the setup)?

Thanks,
Dmitriy.

Answer 1

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zhx4ah11(VS.80).aspx

Does following trick work in your case?

You can correct this by adding a Custom folder and setting its DefaultLocation property to the same value as the first folder, then moving the second copy of the file to the new folder.

Answer 2

I was able workaround this by setting "Build Action" for the web.config to "None".
This way it doesn't get included into the setup package.

Then I just added another config file manually.

Works like a charm for this particular situation.