Hi Andrew,

From your description, you're using vs 2005/ASP.NET web deployment project
to precompile the web site project and wonder how to use the "section
replacement" feature and avoid letting the separate config section file be
copied to the compiled output folder, right?

Based on my research, the "section replacement" feature of WDP does support
you to supply a full qualified path instead a relative path(just simply the
filename). For example, you can use the following line to supply a separate
config file(in an external folder) in the WDP's section replacement setting
dialog:

system.web/pages=e:\temp\mypages.config;
<<<<<<<

Thus, at runtime, the WDP will pickup the configuration setting from that
file (in the external dir) and replace the certain section with the content
in that file. Also, after the precompilation, that separate file (in
external folder) will not be copiled to the application's precompile output
directory.   I've tested it on my local environment and it works well.

You can try it to see whether it fits your requirement and feel free to let
me know if you need any further help/

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead



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