[MonoDevelop] Copying files to output directory in MonoDevelop

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Erik Ylvisaker
<eylvisaker at physics.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> Hi, I am using MonoDevelop version 2.0 alpha 2.  I have a project with
> some images that should be copied to the output directory into a folder
> like [Output Path]/Images.   They are in my project in an images folder,
> and I have them set to copy to output.  However, they are just copied to
> [Output Path].  This same setup in the Visual Studio IDE worked for
> copying the images to the correct directory, and I thought it was the
> case with MonoDevelop 1.0 as well but I cannot test it to be sure.  Is
> this a bug I should file, or the intended behavior?  If this is the
> intended behavior, how does one insure that the files are copied to a
> subfolder of the output directory?

Could you file a bug? It seems I didn't check VS' behaviour well
enough when I implemented this.

As a workaround, you can instead use our "Deploy" feature, which is
much more flexible. Simply mark the file to deploy using the property
pad, and you can set target filename, patch, etc.

-- 
Michael Hutchinson
http://mjhutchinson.com