MVC WebDeploy Includes Referenced Assembly Xml Documentation Files

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I'm using WebDeploy to package my ASP .Net MVC3 project for deployment, but I'm finding that the package is being bloated by a number of xml files. These appear to be XML documentation, presumably used by VS2010 for intellisense.

For example, in my built package (and build dir) I have both NHibernate.dll and NHibernate.xml.

Do these xml doc files need to be deployed?
How can I exclude them from the build / webdeploy if not?

Thanks!

I just asked a similar question - sorry, didn't find yours. Did you find anything? stackoverflow.com/questions/9842519/… — TrueWill
– TrueWill, Commented Mar 23, 2012 at 19:13

timamm · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-28 20:48:57Z

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Two things to check:

1) Are you using a debug build instead of a release build to build your package?

2) For information on excluding specific files or folders from a deployment, see the ASP.NET Web Application Project Deployment FAQ. There's also a blog post on customizing a deployment package that has information on how to use skip rules to exclude files or folders from a particular Web Deploy operation.

answered Mar 28, 2012 at 20:48

timamm

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