msbuild/clickonce publish files generated during the build

Question

As a part of my build process I generate some files that should be included when creating a clickonce deployment.

Here is a blog post of someone telling you how to incl

Answer 1

Check out this post. I'm pretty sure that's the one I used when I setup our deployment process here.

We need to include non .net dlls in the bin directory for our app to work, they're already built so I don't have your problem of 'need to build first'. However I do the 'include' as part of the BeforePublish target:

   

  
    
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As you can see, IncludeAdditionalPublishFiles does the 'include' work (check the blog post for a 'what the hells going on here'), I also update the config and set some values in an SQL Compact Db.

It takes a bit of trial and error to get it right but works in the end. Note you can add as many AdditionalPublishFile as you want.