ASP.NET Merge: Virtual path 'obal.asax' is not allowed

Question

I am doing a Web Deployment of my website and I have the merge assemblies property set to true.

For some reason I get the following error.

aspnet_merge : error occurred: An error occurred when merging assemblies: The relative virtual path 'obal.asax' is not allowed here.

It seems to have something to do with the Global.asax, but I'm not really sure why its getting truncated. My code compiles locally fine, but its only the merge that is messing up.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

As a shot in the dark:

Is it a slash issue? I vaguely remember MSBuild forcibly requiring a trailing slash on some of its properties.