Microsoft KB Archive/836159

= Description of the copy operations that are available in the Project Copy dialog box when you deploy a Web project in Visual Studio .NET =

Article ID: 836159

Article Last Modified on 5/17/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Developer
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 Enterprise Architect
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 Enterprise Developer
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 Academic Edition

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INTRODUCTION
This article discusses the various types of copy operations that are available in the Project Copy dialog box to copy the contents of a Web project.



MORE INFORMATION
The Project Copy dialog box contains the following three options:  Only files needed to run this application

This option copies the files that a user must have to run your Web application. These files include the following:  The output DLL from the Bin folder All files that are marked as BuildAction = content, such as .html files, image files, .aspx files, and others All references in the Bin folder

Note If the COM+ references are in the Bin folder, these references will not be registered on the destination computer. All project files

This option copies all the files that appear under &quot;Only files needed to run this application&quot; in this section, plus any other files in your project, such as .vb files or .cs source files, and the project file itself. All files in the source project folder

This option copies all the files that appear under &quot;All project files&quot; in this section, plus any other files in your Web. These files may include files that are not part of this project. These additional files are only visible in Solution Explorer if you have turned on the Show All Files option.</li></ul>

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