Prevent ja/zh folders from being created

Prevent ja/zh folders from being created

Posted by: johen on 26 August 2022, 12:10 am EST

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  johen

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  Posted 26 August 2022, 12:10 am EST - Updated 30 September 2022, 6:11 am EST

  Hello. When I build my application with ActiveReports, it automatically creates the “ja”, “zh” and “zh-CN” folders in the output path. I suppose those are dlls with resources for those locations? They are not necessary in our case, so I was wondering if there is any way to prevent them from being created in the first place.
  
  

  

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  akshay.rajput

  

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  Posted 29 August 2022, 8:56 pm EST

  Hi João,

  The ja & zh folders contain the resource files for the Japanese and Chinese environment, to display the Designer, Report, etc in
  
  Japanese or Chinese. As far as the ja & zh folders are concerned, it is required for displaying
  
  localized viewers or reports on Japanese or Chinese environments.

  These resources are added from the NuGet Packages by Visual Studio automatically.
  
  As a workaround, you may use a Post-Build command to delete these files. To delete the ja and zh-CN folder you may add the following command in the Post-Build Event:

  RD /S /Q "$(TargetDir)ja\"
  RD /S /Q "$(TargetDir)zh-CN\"
  

  For more information on Post-Build commands, you may refer to the following pages of the Microsoft Documentation and the StackOverFlow forum:

  • “https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/reference/pre-build-event-post-build-event-command-line-dialog-box?view=vs-2022”

  • “https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30518326/deleting-entire-folder-in-visual-studio-post-build-event”