When I use the "normal" "Publish-tool" built into Visual Studio for ASP.net, it seems like it does not include XML-comment-files that belongs to dependent projects/assemblies.
For instance, lets say we have two projects:
- Presentation = The Web-application
- Definitions = A project containing definitions of models
The presentation-project has a dependency to the Definition-project. The presentation-project has XML-comments enabled, and so does the Definition-project (for all configurations).
The presentation-project has a few comments added to the actions of its controller(s). The definition-project has a few comments added to the properties of the model(s).
The expected result would be that when I publish the Presentation-project, we should end up with two XML- files in the bin folder:
- Presentation.xml
- Definitions.xml
The names might of course alter if any other name has been specified in the build-properties of each project. The actual result is that only Presentation.xml is published to the bin-folder.
I have tried to link resulting Definitions.xml-file to the Presentation-project as setting it as "Content" and to always copy, that ended up in the file getting copied to the root-folder of the application during a publish and not the /bin-folder. I have tried the same thing but linked it into the bin-folder of the Presentation-project, but that ened up with the result of the Definitions.xml-file ending up at /bin/bin/Definitions.xml. I have tried linking and setting Always, but that did nothing.
Here is a simple sample that can be used to reconstruct the problem: https://github.com/Inx51/publishdemo
However.. one thing to notice is that the Definitions.xml-file is indeed copied to the /bin-folder during build, but its not copied once using publish.
Anyone that has a workaround for this strange behaviour?
