Preventing referenced assembly PDB and XML files copied to output

Posted by Jason Morse on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Jason Morse
Published on 2010-01-06T07:14:45Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 23:03 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 420

Filed under:

pdb-ms

|

Xml

|

build

|

visual-studio

I have a Visual Studio 2008 C#/.NET 3.5 project with a post build task to ZIP the contents. However I'm finding that I'm also getting the referenced assemblies' .pdb (debug) and .xml (documentation) files in my output directory (and ZIP).

For example, if MyProject.csproj references YourAssembly.dll and there are YourAssembly.xml and YourAssembly.pdb files in the same directory as the DLL they will show up in my output directory (and ZIP).

I can exclude *.pdb when ZIP'ing but I cannot blanket exclude the *.xml files as I have deployment files with the same extension.

Is there a way to prevent the project from copying referenced assembly PDB and XML files?

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about pdb-ms

HRESULT of 0x806D0005 from Microsoft's Dia2Lib

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I'm trying to read a PDB file into a C# application. When I call loadDataFromPdb or loadAndValidateDataFromPdb with a file that I know exists, I get an HRESULT of 0x806D0005. Unfortunately, I have no idea what that means. I have the list of possible results [here](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2008hf0e(v=VS… >>> More
Embed pdb into assembly

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hi! I want my application to be distributable as a single .exe file but I want to be able to get nice error reports with source code line numbers (the application simply sends email with exception.ToString() and some additional information when unhandled exception occurs). Is there any way to embed… >>> More
Visual Studio 2008 - Add Reference

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
When adding a DLL as a reference to an ASP.Net project, VS2008 adds several files to the bin directory. If the DLL is called foo.dll, VS2008 adds foo.dll.refresh, foo.pdb and foo.xml. I know what foo.dll is :-), why does VS2008 add the other three files? What do those three files do? Can I delete… >>> More
How to filter specific symbols(Only defined in dll/Exe/lib) using dia2dump

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hello, I need my all defined symbols (functions) in certain DLL/EXE/lib. I dont need Kernel or other OS layers symbols. I dont need all other stuf, only which's defined by my own DLL or EXE which I am giving it as PDB. But it shows EVERYTHING kernel related,OS related and balah blah endless list(sky… >>> More
How to build OpenSSL in release mode with symbols?

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I generally build my openssl libs by doing this: perl Configure VC-WIN32 ms\do_masm nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak test For debugging minidumps, I'd like to get a pdb file for the 2 dlls (while still building them in "release" mode). I've added /Zi to the CFLAGS part of ms\ntdll… >>> More

Related posts about Xml

Store XML,update record in XML,retrive a specific record in XML stored on BB device

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I am writing a blackberry application where i want to store the data returned by a web service in my BB device.Earlier i was going to use SQLite for storing the data in mobile but as i googled and also did programming using SQLite and found that some BB devices dont support SQLite library and fail… >>> More
gwt+xml- can i read through incomplete XML using the GWT XML Parser

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I have a requirement where a user is typing in XML in a text area, and I want to show the various nodes in a tree...But as the user is typing in the xml, it wont be a complete xml (since he is still typing in the XML)... How do I read an incomplete XML and correctly generate the tree? I understand… >>> More
perl xml parser get xml content within xml

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
How can I use XMLParser to get the item-@url, item-@replace and item-"value inside" for the content as a string of the node where item-@cone="one"? <cstep> <item cone="one" url="http://google.com/{ccc}/cthree" replace="{ccc}"> <itemsub conesub="conesub"> … >>> More
Reading php generated XML in flash?

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Here is part 1 of our problem (Loading a dynamically generated XML file as PHP in Flash). Now we were able to get Flash to read the XML file, but we can only see the Flash render correctly when tested(test movie) from the actual Flash program. However, when we upload our files online to preview the… >>> More
Announcing RSS feeds of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework code samples

as seen on Geeks with Blogs - Search for 'Geeks with Blogs'
Today, we are not only announcing Sample Browser v2 CTP, but we are also excited to announce the availability of RSS feeds of All-In-One Code Framework code samples. By using these feeds, you can easily track and download the new code samples. English RSS feeds All code samples: http://support… >>> More