Confused about BuildAction property

[Richard L Rosenheim]

According to the documentation, the explanation for the Content value of the
BuildAction property is "The file is not compiled, but is included in the
Content output group." I'm quoting from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbconfileproperties.asp

I have an Access database which I want included in the project to use as the
structure for new instances of the database. Therefore, I included the
database in my solution, and set its BuildAction value to "Content". Yet,
when I build the solution, the file is not copied to the bin folder with the
executable.

Am I going something wrong? Misunderstanding the meaning of "included in
the Content output group"? Is there a bug with VS2003?

TIA,

Richard Rosenheim

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

According to the documentation, the explanation for the Content value of the
BuildAction property is "The file is not compiled, but is included in the
Content output group." I'm quoting from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbconfileproperties.asp

I have an Access database which I want included in the project to use as the
structure for new instances of the database. Therefore, I included the
database in my solution, and set its BuildAction value to "Content". Yet,
when I build the solution, the file is not copied to the bin folder with the
executable.

Am I going something wrong? Misunderstanding the meaning of "included in
the Content output group"? Is there a bug with VS2003?

Misunderstanding. The build action is used to determine what to include
in a setup package, not what to copy over to the "bin" folder.

 

[Richard L Rosenheim]

Thanks for the clarification.

Richard Rosenheim