XML File not deleted while cleaning a solution in Visual Studio 2013

Question

I am Creating XML File for saving the credentials.

  private void CreateCredentialFile()
   {
        string path = @"Assets\CredentialFile.xml";
        XDocument doc = new XDocument(new XElement("ConferenceRooms"));
         XElement newRoom = new XElement("ConferenceRoom",
                                           new XElement("Email",SelectedConfRoom.EmailId),
                                           new XElement("Password", SelectedConfRoom.Password)
                                       );
        doc.Element("ConferenceRooms").Add(newRoom);
        doc.Save(path);
   }

But If I clean the solution means this file still present in my output directory. I want to this file get removed while cleaning the solution. Is there anyway to remove this file while cleaning the solution?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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Jon Skeet:

Clean solution will remove the build artifacts from the previous build. If there are any other files in the build target directories (bin and obj) they may not be removed, but actual build artifacts are.

Reference: Difference between Build Solution, Rebuild Solution, and Clean Solution in Visual Studio?

What it actually means is that as long as you're manually creating files into your application the output folder, they will not be removed when using the Clean Solution command, but only those files which generated by the Visual Studio MS-BUILD.

But, you can add the following section to the project in question in order to perform custom cleaning:

<Target Name="AfterClean">
    <Delete Files="$(TargetDir)\*.txt" />
</Target>

edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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answered May 19 '15 at 13:26

Yair Nevet

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In spite of divine nature of Jon Skeet, direct citations are not answers. You can easily mark question as duplicate. – Dennis May 19 '15 at 13:31
Where did you take this rule from? Due to my respect for Jon I quoted him. – Yair Nevet May 19 '15 at 13:34
@Dineshbalan You're welcome! tell me, did you customize something with my code or it simply worked for you as is? – Yair Nevet May 20 '15 at 07:18
@YairNevet I customized something like you told – Dinesh balan May 20 '15 at 08:58

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 19 '15 at 13:30

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There are a few ways to handle this. If your goal is to remove the XML file prior to building the solution, you can use a Pre-build event. Navigate to your project properties > Compile tab > Build Events (button lower right). In the Build Events window, you can add a command or script to do the necessary pre-build cleanup. This is quite flexible and allows you to externally manage resource files that aren't considered as part of the actual project output.

answered May 19 '15 at 13:30

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I don't want to remove the file while build. I want to remove the file while clean the solution only. – Dinesh balan May 20 '15 at 05:22

XML File not deleted while cleaning a solution in Visual Studio 2013

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