Hi all I have just finished developing my new module and it works perfectly on my local instance of dnn.  

When I try to Create a Package to load onto the production site it creates a zipped file in the location

• MyDrive:\MyDNNSite\Install\Module.

My problem is that not all of the dll files that are shown in the manifest get zipped in the bin folder. (that's the first problem)

I tried to work around this by adding the dll files and zipping the file back up.  

Next when I try to Install my extension I get errors in the upload results saying the following for a few of the files

Failure

File specified in the dnn could not be found in the zip file

 D:\\MySite\Install\Temp\maf540ah\bin\AspNet.ScriptManager.jQuery.dll

 

Does anyone know why this is happening?  Thanking you in advance for your help.

I have done this manually then re-zipped the files as creating a package via dnn is leaving out some of the required dll's.

 

My mew issue on this is when I try to upload my extension via the wizard it cannot find the dnn manifest file.  This is 1 subdirectory below where it is looking.  I'm guessing this has somthing to do with my build file.

My error 

A critical error has occurred. Could not find file 'D:\MyDNNSite\Install\Temp\0ivw5oxk\_Custom.MyModule.dnn'.

The actual location is e 'D:\MyDNNSite\Install\Temp\0ivw5oxk\_Custom.MyModule_Install\_Custom.MyModule.dnn'.

How can I change my module build file to reflect this path?

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003"  >

  <Target Name="AfterBuild" DependsOnTargets="CopyBin;CopyFiles" />

  <PropertyGroup>

    <WebsitePath>C:\EOA</WebsitePath>

    <WebsiteBinPath>$(WebsitePath)\bin</WebsiteBinPath>

    <ModuleFolderName>$(WebsitePath)\DesktopModules\Custom\MyModule</ModuleFolderName>

  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>

    <Views Include="*.ascx;" />

    <Styles Include="*.css;" />

  </ItemGroup>

  <Target Name="CopyBin">

    <Copy SourceFiles="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\bin\$(AssemblyName).dll" DestinationFolder="$(WebsiteBinPath)" />

    <Copy SourceFiles="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\bin\$(AssemblyName).dll"  DestinationFolder="$(WebsiteBinPath)" />

  </Target>

  <Target Name="CopyFiles">

    <Copy SourceFiles="@(Views)" DestinationFolder="$(ModuleFolderName)" />

    <Copy SourceFiles="@(Styles)"  DestinationFolder="$(ModuleFolderName)" />

  </Target>

 

</Project>

OK I have solved the problem. When I created the package through dnn it created a zip file (the one we then install as an extension). Unfortunately not all the dll's were being packaged so I unzipped the files then added the missing dll's the re-zipped the files. Unfortunately this was not working. And yes the manifest (the dnn file) matched the dll's included.

How I got it working was to open the zipped file and navigate to my bin directory. I then dragged and dropped my missing files into this folder and it loaded like a treat.

The difference being I never unzipped the file, I just added my missing dll's to the zipped file. Correcting this got rid of my 2nd problem :)

Thanks Sebastian for trying much appreciated