WebActivator.PreApplicationStartMethod does not work

Question

[assembly:  WebActivator.PreApplicationStartMethod(typeof(MyApp.App_Start.StructureMapMvc), \"Start\")]

namespace MyApp.App_Start
{
    public static class Structur         


        

Answer 1

With WebActivator version 1.5.3, the MyClass.cs.pp file cannot just live in the App_Start folder, but must live in the content\App_Start folder in order for nuget install to create the transformed file in the App_Start of the target project.

This is undocumented, as far as I can tell.

NOTE: This solution seems to work so long as the originating .nupkg was built using nuget pack using a conventional file system approach, but NOT when using nuget pack that targets a specific .csproj file.