Designer Added then removed by Visual Studio on load/unload

Question

Anyone see this before? I have a large Visual Studio project that keeps adding [Subtype]Designer[/Subtype] to my .vcproj then removing it on the n

Answer 1

I found that Designer changes the behaviour for Web.config.

We use WebDeploy to publish web service files.

If SubType is set for Web.config - it publishes this file correctly under the main directory where all content files go and .svc.

If SubType is not set - it does above but also copies Web.config under bin\ subdirectory - which is very strange! In MsBuild log this happens during CollectFilesFrom_SourceItemsToCopyToOutputDirectory target.