[Question] How to avoid duplicated .exe.application and .exe.manifest

[Riebe]

[Question] How to avoid duplicated .exe.application and .exe.manifest

[Riebe]

I believe the Task is flagging the exe.manifest and .application as files and therefore appending .deploy. Then adding them back at a later stage:

Question is... why is this different from the Visual Studio publish?

Adding files...
C:\agent\vsts-agent-win-x64-2.165.2\project\bin\Release[projectName].application
C:\agent\vsts-agent-win-x64-2.165.2\project\Release[projectName].exe.config
C:\agent\vsts-agent-win-x64-2.165.2\project\bin\Release[projectName].exe.manifest

Adding file associations...
none found.

Processing application...
Warning: MSB3178: Assembly 'C:\agent\vsts-agent-win-x64-2.165.2\project\bin\Release[projectName].application' is incorrectly specified as a file.
Warning: MSB3178: Assembly 'C:\agent\vsts-agent-win-x64-2.165.2_work\project\bin\Release[projectName].exe.manifest' is incorrectly specified as a file.
Manifest written to 'C:\agent\vsts-agent-win-x64-2.165.2\project\bin\Release\app.publish\Application Files[projectName]_6_1_0_8344[projectName].exe.manifest'
Manifest signed.

Processing deployment...
Manifest written to 'C:\agent\vsts-agent-win-x64-2.165.2\project\bin\Release\app.publish[projectName].application'
Manifest signed.

[Riebe]

To those who might face similar issues.... Go to the cproj file and make sure you set a tag named or simply to false. Hope it helps someone. Took me some pain to figure it out