Copy always to output directory does not work

Question

I\'ve got a simple console project where I\'m reading two Excel-files. The Excel-files are included in the project (\"add existing item\") and I\'ve marked them with \"Copy

Answer 1

Changes to non-source code files don't cause a rebuild to occur - they aren't considered when the compiler does it's out of date checking.

Try forcing a complete rebuild by deleting your output directory completely (sometimes doing this from within Visual Studio isn't complete).

It may be that the files haven't been copied across because a full build hasn't been run.