Dll - a published site, but not in Build

Question

There should be a tiny question about something forgotten, but I've been stuck with this since then, and now I need some pointers.

We are on .NET 3.5, VS2008 and TFS 2010

I have an ASP.NET website project. The solution has several class projects and one website project.

The problem is that when TFS builds the project, then 2 dlls are never generated in the _PublishedWebsite folder.

The strange thing is that these DLLs are generated and present outside the _PublsihedWebsite folder, but not in the bin, inside the publishedwebsites.

If we publish the website, then everything will be perfect, and the whole DLL will come.

Destructive DLLs: Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common.dll Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms.dll

I tried installing CopyLocal of these dlls in all projects.

eg.

<Reference Include="Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=9.0.30729.4402, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a, processorArchitecture=MSIL"> <SpecificVersion>False</SpecificVersion> <HintPath>..\Library\Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms.dll</HintPath> <Private>True</Private> </Reference> 

I checked that there is an update file in my bin folder, the pointer of which is correctly indicated in my Library folder, where this dll is physically located.

Here is a high level view of my solution structure:

 Project 1 ----Refers to Report DLL (CopyLocal is true) Project 2 ----Refers to Report DLL (CopyLocal is true) Website project -----Refers to Project 1 -----Refers to Project 2 ----Refers to Report DLL (via Library folder in the refresh file in Bin folder) 

What else can I check?

Answer 1

Please set the logging level of your assembly definition to "Detailed", run the TFS assembly again and check the detailed logs, both in the TFS assembly explorer and in the MSBuild log file in the folder. I suspect this will be the key to this problem. For example, I saw the ASP.NET precompiler to give errors that generate websites, while this does not appear in the assembly explorer logs that are being cleaned.