Unable to open configSource file that was added as link

Question

In my MVC application I use external config files to keep clean web.config. Some files are common and I added them to project as link from one location. For those files I set Co

Answer 1

I suffered from the same problem. In my case, config file's 'Build Action' property was the cause. ( Right click on the config file > Properties > Build Action )

The 'Build Action' value was set to 'None'. After I changed it to 'Content', the problem sovled. ( I am not sure if it was 'a Visual Studio's bug' or 'my click-by-mistake' that made it set to 'None'.