No way to set destination of inherited content files. Puts them in root.

[karann-msft]

@Magn3s1um commented on Thu Aug 08 2019

I have 3 packages, let call them A, B and C.

Their dependencies are as follows:

C references B, and B references A.

A has the following content:

 <Content Include="Startup\**\*.csv">
     <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
    </Content>

Inside of B, when referencing this project, the files show up correct in the Startup folder.

Now when packing B though, these content files are placed at the root. So in C, the content files of A actually show up in the root directory.,

There is no way to set this using the package format. I want to inherit the folder structures from child dependencies.

A picture of what happens in project C can be seen below (the original file structure does not stay intact):

A work around is as follows:

Exclude content files from B and directly reference A.

While this works, its not ideal, since consumers of package B need to know about package A.