Unable to open configSource file that was added as link

Question

In my MVC application I use external config files to keep clean web.config. Some files are common and I added them to project as link from one location. For those files I set Copy option to Copy always and those files are copied to destination folder and I see them. But when I try to open home page in the browser I see "Unable to open configSource file" error. When I remove links to files and just add them (no link) everything works good. Any idea what may cause this error?

Answer 1

Finally I found what was the issue. When use Copy always, files are copied to bin folder. But files are searched in the virtual directory not in the bin. So I added post build task which copies files to correct destination.

Answer 2

I added the post build event as suggested. But the exact steps are:

1. Right click on the project and navigate to properties
2. Click on the Build Events tab
3. In the Post-build event command line: box I added:

xcopy /s "$(ProjectDir)\bin\Config" "$(ProjectDir)\Config"