Article with executables included

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Hello

I am trying to publish an article and it is nearly ready to go public.

However the project solution I want to include has a executable files contained in it, they are related to Visual Studio 2012's NuGet package installer, and will allow the solution to download any packages it needs for the solution straight from Microsoft.

Can published articles have .exes included with them.

Some of the extensions I have used are not included as part of the .Net framework, and need to be downloaded using NuGet. The ones in question are Unity 3.0 and NBuilder 3.0. Also NuGet.exe is included as part of the process by Visual Studio 2012. I have no idea why, although I would guess to make sure versioning alignment is correct for the package installer.

Many Thanks,
Baxter-P

Posted 30-Jan-14 8:38am

Baxter P

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-30T08:44:00

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Yes, they can - normally these are zipped up by you and the publication wizard creates a "second version" that doesn't include any executable files which runs alongside the EXE version.

I think that you want to create a slightly different version since it would seem that yours won't work without the EXE files present. I don;t know how to do that, but I know a man who does...

If you post this request here: http://www.codeproject.com/Forums/1641/Article-Writing.aspx[^] Sean reads everything there, and he can either do it for you, or tell you how to do it yourself.

Posted 30-Jan-14 8:44am

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Baxter P 30-Jan-14 19:45pm

Hi
Thanks for the reply. I have already tried creating another version by referencing the .dlls directly but I still get a second version without .exes.

I have done a windows search on the whole solution, and it cannot find any .exes, only .dlls.

I think the upload scanner is doing something else other than just searching for .exes, as there aren't any .exes in the archive I uploaded, but still got a second smaller version which will not compile when I re-downloaded it.

Hence the question, as I decided using the version with an .exe in it made most sense.

Many Thanks,
Baxter-P

OriginalGriff 31-Jan-14 3:32am

You're welcome!