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Asked: 2026-06-05T08:11:51+00:00

I have the following setup: Main Website – MVC 3 project, to be hosted

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I have the following setup:

  • Main Website – MVC 3 project, to be hosted on http://www.domain.com

  • Intranet Web App – MVC 3 project, windows authentication, hosted on admin.domain.com, which is only accessible from within the local subnet.

  • CDN Website – A simple web app that merely serves images to both of the above. It will be hosted (publically) on cdn.domain.com, when we go live. I have set up a local project to mock the CDN during development.

I’ve written a business layer that allows users in the admin panel to upload images, which are then physically saved to the CDN path that’s configured (currently on the local machine i.e. C:\Code\SolutionName\CDNProject\images). The main website then uses the same business layer to find and distribute the images via http://cdn.domain.com/images/. http://cdn.domain.com is currently set to http://localhost:55555, while we develop.

Whenever an image is created via the admin panel, it is physically created on disk. Each developer works on his own machine, we we want to be able to check these files in to TFS, for the time being. As you might have guessed, adding files to the file system does not automatically reference them in the project:

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I thought there may be some way to reference these images as resources, or set a directory to a “content” directory of sorts… but I can’t find anything.

Some developers work remotely via VPN, and do not have access to the local network (only TFS), so a network path is not an acceptable solution.

I thought I might be able to set a pre-build event up, to add all files in a directory to the project?

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  1. Editorial Team

    There is no very easy way to do that. There are a few ways to think about:

    1) Write VS adding which adds new files to project (via DTE – starting point). Find out how to automatically run this VS addin on Pre-Build step. Install this addin to your developers machines.

    2) Extend your admin logic to automatically check-in the uploaded files to TFS via TFS API

    3) try to apply more sofisticated techonologies like this one: T4 Tutorial: Integrating Generated Files in Visual Studio Projects

    Hope that helps,

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