Why NuGet adds app.config with assemblyBinding to LIBRARY projects during a NuGet package update?

Question

Isn\'t this information necessary only in the executable\'s project?

How to disable this file creation?

NuGet 2.8

EDIT

Libr

Answer 1

I created a little console app that checks all the date of the app.config files and then auto deletes them from your .csproj and the file. Todo: delete from tfs. Perhaps this could help.

class Program
{
    private static string RootFolder;
    private static string AppConfigName;
    private static bool AskConfirmation = true;
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        try
        {
            AppConfigName = "app.config";
            RootFolder = @"";
            ScanDir(RootFolder);
            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("DONE!");
            Console.WriteLine("Press ENTER to finish...");
            Console.ReadLine();

        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
        }
    }

    private static void ScanDir(string directoryParent)
    {
        var dirs = Directory.GetDirectories(directoryParent);
        foreach (var dir in dirs)
        {
            var dirInfo = new DirectoryInfo(dir);
            if (dirInfo.Name == "bin" || dirInfo.Name == "obj" || dirInfo.Name == "debug" || dirInfo.Name == "tempPE" || dirInfo.Name == "java" || dirInfo.Name == "res") continue;
            var files = Directory.GetFiles(dir, "app.config");
            if (files.Length == 0)
            {
                ScanDir(dir);
                continue;
            }
            Process(dir);
            //ScanDir(dir);
        }
    }

    private static void Process(string dir)
    {
        var fi = new FileInfo(Path.Combine(dir, AppConfigName));
        if (fi.CreationTime.Date != DateTime.Now.Date) return;
        if (AskConfirmation)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Scan " + dir.Replace(RootFolder, ""));
            Console.Write("Remove (y)es or (n)o ?");
            var key = Console.ReadKey();
            Console.WriteLine();
            if (key.Key.ToString() =="Y")
                // remove app.config
                RemoveAppConfig(dir, fi);
        }
        else
            RemoveAppConfig(dir, fi);
    }

    private static void RemoveAppConfig(string dir, FileInfo fi)
    {
        var csProjs = Directory.GetFiles(dir, "*.csproj");
        foreach (var csProj in csProjs)
        {
            var txt = File.ReadAllText(csProj);
            txt = Regex.Replace(txt,"", "",RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
            File.Delete(csProj);
            File.WriteAllText(csProj, txt);
        }
        File.Delete(fi.FullName);
        // todo: undo in tfs
        Console.WriteLine("Deleted");
    }
}