Excluding files from the Bin Directory in ASP .NET Web app

misstech · Post by **misstech** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:41 pm

Afternoon All,

Vault Version: 3.5.0
Development IDE: Visual Studio 2005

Been wondering about this for some time and it's only recently become a cause for concern. The newest project that I'm working on has quite a few files located in the Bin Directory and some of them keep getting checked out when we run it to debug. If I was working on this alone, it would be less of an issue but there are several of us working simultaneously on this project and having all these critical files checked out when trying to build is a bit on the unnerving side.

From what I can gather, you can exclude regular files (aspx, vb, etc.) from being checked in from the IDE but you can't do that for files that exist in the Bin Directory.

Is there any way to exclude the Bin Directory entirely from Source Control using Visual Studio 2K5 and/or Vault?

Thanks for your time,
Amanda

gmagana · Post by **gmagana** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:53 pm

This has been discussed before (I don't say this to chastise you, just so you know that searching the forums would give you some answers)... I think the best solution is to upgrade to VS2005 SP1 (this patch supposedly fixes this problem), or you could also convert your project from "Web Site" to "Web Application". Web applications allow you much more control over each individual file, whereas VS2005 web sites do not allow file-by-file control. Web applications are an add-on to VS2005 without the SP1 patch, or they are added to VS2005 by the SP1 patch.

misstech · Post by **misstech** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:47 pm

Thanks for the prompt reply

I'll take this back to my team and let them know. I'll be sure to search the forum a little more throughly next time.

Thanks again,
Amanda