Hi Stephen,

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yes, this behavior is as expected, you don't miss anything. The VS.NET's
CAB file project only provides the basic function to cab your project's
content files, it is unable to preserve their original directory hierarchy.

If you want to cab your project's content files with their directory
hierarchy, you have to use the cabarc.exe to make a cab file manually: you
can open the Visual Studio .NET 2003 Command Prompt console window, then go
to your application's project directory, use the following command sample
to cab your content files:

1) All and only the content files exist in the contents directory and its
sub-directories:
cabarc -p -r N cnts.cab contents\*.*

2) All and only the content files exist in the content1 directory(and its
sub-directories) and content2 directory(and its sub-directories) :
cabarc -p -r N cnts.cab content1\*.*  content2\*.*

2) Both the xml files and txt files in the content1 directory(and its
sub-directories) and only the txt files in the content2 directory(and its
sub-directories) :
cabarc -p -r N cnts.cab content1\*.xml  content1\*.txt content2\*.txt

Also you can type the "cabarc" to review its usage info.

Thanks!

Best regards,

Gary Chang
Microsoft Community Support
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