ASP.NET Core: Exclude or include files on publish

Question

There were before aspdotnet1.0 include/exclude sections on project.json file

{
  \"exclude\": [
    \"node_modules\",
    \"bower_c         


        

Answer 1

For Visual Studio 2019, I managed to exclued a wwwroot subfolder named "dummy" (including all subfolders of "dummy") from publish output using the following code:

  
    Never
  

Note: The requirement was to keep the wwwroot and its subfolder(s) included in project but just exclude while publishing.