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Asked: 2026-05-11T09:05:34+00:00

I am working on an ASP.NET MVC web application, and am working on the

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I am working on an ASP.NET MVC web application, and am working on the Web Setup portion. We are using SVN for version control. One of the issues is that the we are currently having is that the web designers modify and add a lot of html, css and js files that end up in the Content folders, but they don’t add them to the VS project, so the new files don’t get included in the installer.

One option is that we have to try to teach them to always go into VS and manually add the files, but we’re on a large project and it’s getting down to crunch time, so trying to get people to learn something new in a technology that they don’t know will result in too many mistakes, so I’d like to work around that if possible.

Is there some way to get the setup project just to include files from a folder on the file system, instead of a project’s designated content files?

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  1. I think I’ve figured it out:

    Make sure that the installer project includes the Content Files for the web app. Then go into the web app’s csproj file with a text editor and find the ItemGroup where the static Content files are listed. Then add an entry with a wildcard in it and the installer will package them in.

    <ItemGroup>     <Content Include='Content\test.html' />     <Content Include='Content\*.html' />         <Content Include='Content\*.gif' />        <Content Include='Content\*.css' />        <Content Include='Content\*.jpg' />        <Content Include='Content\*\*.js' />
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