Question

I am trying to make a NuGet package, with two .ascx and two .ascx.cs files. All four files are in the same folder, not in the app_code folder. Now when I make a Nuget package, it put’s the .cs’s inside the app_code folder, giving me the "does not contain definition for...are you missing a using directive or assembly reference?" error for the .cs files trying to reference controls on the .ascx. Now what I want to know is two things:

1. how can I make a reference from the .ascx.cs file to the .ascx when they’re in different folders so I can program the controls again?

2. how can I override the folder location for .cs files with NuGet? I tried using the <files> tag like this:

   <files><file src="somepath\*.ascx.cs" target="somepath"/></files>

but when I open the package with 7zip and look at the .nuspec there, it appears NuGet just ignores that.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

(Taken from David Fowler’s comment, so this can be marked as answered)

This is a bug in NuGet and has now been fixed 🙂