I have web deployment project with "Allow this precompiled site to be updatable" set to "false". If "Output Assemblies" set to anything but "Merge individual folder output to its own assembly" I get the following error:

"aspnet_merge.exe exited with code 1".

Try these pages:

http://forums.asp.net/thread/1178593.aspx
http://www.malachicomputer.com/blog/PermaLink,guid,212ff510-2148-418f-a19b-1a8870258505.aspx

I turned on detailed logging in MSBuild and here is the error:

An error occurred when merging assemblies: Access to the path 'C:\Projects\Rewrite\Engineering\Source\Mail\SendMailWebDeploy\Debug\bin\SendMailWeb.pdb' is denied.

debug file seems to be locked by another process.
Are sure your application is not running while deploying? and in debug mode ?

In case just restart Visual Studio and retry.

No. I restart the computer, start VS, load project, build it and get the error.

I finally figured what was causing this: name of the output assembly. If it is set to the same name as the project name (in my case SendMailWeb) then I get an error. Looks like it is due to the fact that WDP names its output assembly the same. After renaming output to SendMail everything works. Thanks everyone!

Ok,
Nice to share tips !!

This error has been reported for so long and there is no fix for it.  Many developers piss at the new build model in .NET 2 because it does not allow to build and distribute the code as an DLL as using Web Site Project.  Do we suppose to distribute opensource? 

I had this error and discovered that it was caused by having a DataSet with the Same name as my ASPX page, example TaskRate.XSD and TaskRate.ASPX.  I renamed my page and the error went away.  I hope this helps others.

 

Gerry

this problem occur in  aspnet_merge.exe, because 2 page have same class name in project.

When u compile, if u choose " single page assemblies", this error don't occur. When u choose merge assemblies, it will occur.

To solve this problem  is very easy. Find the page have the same class name and change it. 

 

Xhuyvn. 

Hello everyone,

I also had this problem and your solution is right.

thank you.

annie

The main reason behind the problem is the duplicate "Inherits" name of pages.

For solution you can visit:

http://an-it-solution.blogspot.com/2008/11/aspnetmergeexe-exited-with-code-1.html