Pedro Lamas 2/15/2013

Reduce the size of your XAP/APPX package: time to take out the trash!

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This technical article explains a Visual Studio/MSBuild issue where XML documentation files from referenced libraries (like Json.NET) are unnecessarily included in Windows Phone 8 and Windows Store app (APPX) packages, significantly increasing file size. It provides a step-by-step solution involving editing the project file to add a custom MSBuild target that filters out these '.xml' files before packaging.

Reduce the size of your XAP/APPX package: time to take out the trash!

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