vwdexpress – Tarik Billa

How to exclude web.config when publishing with Visual Web Developer Express?

August 29, 2023 by Tarik

I can’t believe this is so simple but never got answered. I found the answer in this question Simply select the web.config properties and change ‘Build Action’ to ‘None’ and ‘Copy To Output Directory’ to ‘Do Not copy’

Where is |DataDirectory| defined?

May 11, 2023 by Tarik

The |DataDirectory| isn’t a file per se. A quote from a rather old MSDN article: By default, the |DataDirectory| variable will be expanded as follow: For applications placed in a directory on the user machine, this will be the app’s (.exe) folder. For apps running under ClickOnce, this will be a special data folder created … Read more