Questions tagged [aspnet-merge]
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Are there size limitations to the .NET Assembly format?
We ran into an interesting issue that I've not experienced before. We have a large scale production ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 Web App Project in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 which gets compiled and deployed using a Website Deployment Project. Everything has…

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“Bad binary signature” in ASP.NET MVC application
I'm experiencing the same issue reported here: "Bad binary signature" in ASP.NET MVC application
The ASP.Net MVC site works fine on the local machine, but when deployed using a combination of aspnet_compiler, aspnet_merge, and msdeploy, loading any…

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Web Deployment Project - specify version of aspnet_merge to use
we are having some problems with our WDP, which is deploying a ASP.NET 4.0 site. It seems to all go fine but when its deployed we are getting the System.BadImageFormatException: Bad binary signature. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131192) error, when…

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installing aspnet_merge.exe on build machine without visual studio installed
The new aspnet_merge 5.00 beta is only installable from nugget. to install on our build machine that doesn't have visual studio I want to use nugget.exe directly to get the package.
Anyone know if I can just replace the .EXE in the windows SDK ? I…

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TFS The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process
I have created an automated build process using TFS which builds a web application.
As part of this process a batch file is used to call ASP Merge to merge my web pages into one dll. I'm using the TFS activity, Invoke Process to do this.
The…

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Duplicate type 'master' found in assembly
Previously, we were on .net 2.0 and aspnet_merge build was working fine. Now after upgrading to .net 4.0, when we are trying to build our code using aspnet_merge, it throws following error
Duplicate type 'master' found in assembly.
It is a master…

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Tricky problem with ASP.NET web forms resources and localization
I've got the following nonstandard setup (VS2008, .NET 3.5 SP1):
There is a main web project called MainSite and There are several "plugin" web projects with different names.
When building these plugins I have a custom build step that calls…

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ASP.Net Web Deployment Project Merge Errors
I get this error:
Duplicate type 'powerstats_Admin_control' found in assembly 'App_Web_ssek9ymk'. aspnet_merge 1 1 Release3
I know that its unique to my system but how do I fix it? What does it…

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OutOfMemoryException from aspnet_merge when trying to publish WebSite as single DLL
I thought this was going to be a simple thing to fix, but after trying several solutions I found on Google (clearing temp for the system, running build through 64-bit IIS Express, and building in release mode instead of debug), I'm still getting the…

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aspnet_merge(0,0): Error occurred: An error occurred when merging assemblies: Unresolved assembly reference not allowed: [Custom.Assembly]
I'm a long time Stack Overflow lurker, and this is my first question so please go easy on me.
I develop custom eCommerce ASP.NET Web Forms applications, and during publishing we merge all outputs to a single assembly.
I've been scouring the web…

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Getting aspnet_merge error after converting VS 2008 project to VS 2010
I am getting an error
"aspnet_merge: error 1023: The assemblies cannot be merged because some assemblies have inconsistent attributes: System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ExtensionAttribute. Use -a option to force merge. Use -allowattrs to specify the…

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Can you precompile and merge part of an ASP.NET website and then continue development?
A big part of the web site is precompiled and merged, since it's almost never going to change. The precompiled bits can be replaced in case of updates to the original. I want to continue development of new pages, but when I browse to a new page I…

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Visual Studio - aspnet_merge.exe error when publishing
I've had this issue over VS 2015, 2017 and 2019, so I believe this is not specific to my setup.
aspnet_merge(0,0): Error occurred: An error occurred when merging assemblies: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
This happens after the…

Aleks
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aspnet_merge single assembly not using latest DLL code
I have a web site created in VS2010 that I merge into a single assembly using aspnet_merge. I recently made a small change to one of the compiled ascx pages, but the merged single assembly doesn't reflect that change.
To test further, I manually…

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AspNetMerge Task using MSBuild 2015
I'm migrating a project in Visual Studio 2010 up to use newer 2015 tooling and have no idea how to solve this one.
During the build via TeamCity on a new build agent with Visual Studio 2015 installed, the following error occurs:
error MSB4062: The…

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