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Is there a way to include copyright notices in DLL's from ASP.NET "publish"?
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Are you talking about adding copyright to the Assembly.Info file? (vs 2003), or in My Project (vs2005)

This is where you specify the info that appears in properties for that file in Windows Explorer
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Thanks for response.   I'm using VS2005.  When I "Publish" the site, I would like to have Copyright notices in the DLL's and other compiled source files (if this is possible).    Could you please clarify what you were indicating?
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Looks good.  I'll check it out and postback.   Thanks!
I think in 2005, you can just double-click on "My Project" in the Solution Explorer.  On the Application tab, click Assembly Information.

I think this basically does the same thing, except simpler.

Under the Publish tab there is also the Publish version.

Does this help?

Due to Easter, I haven't been checking this weekend.
Finally back to this...
I'm in VS2005, and I'm a little unclear on projects and solutions, though I think I figured that out.  
When I double click on the project, it just opens and closes...and I can't find and Application Tab....

Any other pointers on where to look?
click on Solution Explorer (right tab)

Double click "My Project"

Click "Application" on the tab on the left.

click "Assembly Information" button

Thanks for your patience with this.  Wow, I must be reading something incorrectly.  

By "My Project" I assume you mean the name of the project, which appears right below the solution line.

When I double click on the name of the project, it just opens and closes the folder hierarchy.  I don't see any "Application" tab.

Looking around, I found this
http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=93d23e13-c653-4815-9e79-16107919f93e

which seems to indicate that there is an AddIn for the AssemblyInfo...which is maybe what is needed to get the button you're seeing to come up.

crisco96:   will your suggestion above work for VB as well as C#?
I am looking at VB Express.  When I click on the name of the project in Solution Explorer, there is an item called "My Project"

Otherwise on the toolbar you can choose Project and near the bottom will be the name of your project plus the word "properties" as a menu item. That will do the same thing.

I don't know on C#.  I imagine it works similar.
Thanks for the message.     I think I may have figured out part of the issue here.   When I open a new PROJECT in Visual Studio 2005 Standard, I see the information you are referring to.  However, when I open a new Web Site, that entry in the solution line doesn't appear.  So it could be that for web sites, the AssemblyInfo has to be inserted via the answer crisco96 gave above, or via the tools that were referred to in the URL above.
You can always insert an assemblyinfo, but the question is why would you want to do so for a website DLL?  Are you reselling?  If not, unless you don't trust your host provider, no one else should ever have access to the DLL anyway and if they did it would be worthless without the corresponding pages on the front end.
Thanks for the input.   It's more of a web-app than a web-site, and part of the plan is that it would at some point hopefully be licensed to go behind a customer firewall.   Part of this is to understand how to do this sort of thing, and then evaluate if it's worth it.

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Ok, thanks for looking at this one.