I’m precompiling all my websites and using the aspnet_merge tool to merge all the App_Web* dll files into one. The tool takes care of updating the corresponding .compiled file as well to point to the new merged assembly. BUT, for .svc files the .compiled file is not updated which gives me the following error at runtime
[FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'App_Web_10iin0kr, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.]
If i open the .compiled file in notepad and replaces App_Web_10iin0kr with Web (which is the name of my merged dll file) everything works fine. Its a bit annoying since building and publishing is all automatic so i would have to write a script that did this as a post-build step. I haven’t been able to find any documentation or people complaining about this, but before i start a new thread on MSDN i want to hear any of you guys if you’ve been running into the same problem as well and if there is a work around.
Nothing here… guess its not being resolved, Microsoft is not responding at all so i just have to do post-merge processing 🙁