Trying to exclude certain extensions doing a recursive copy (MSBuild)

Question

I\'m trying to use MSBuild to read in a list of files from a text file, and then perform a recursive copy, copying the contents of those directories files to some staging ar

Answer 1

You have to specify the Exclude in absolute path and change the exclude wildcard to include subdirectory

If you use an absolute path for Include, you must use an absolute path for Exclude. If you use a relative path for Include, you must use a relative path for both.

  c:\temp
  **\*.tmp
  staging


  



  
    

  

  
    

  

  

Multiple excludes and absolute path

If you want to exclude multiple items, there is no clean way when you are using absolute path, but you could do with Remove.

First way : Using Remove and item

  c:\temp



  
  
  
  



  
    

  

  
    

  

  
  
    
  

  

Second way : Using Remove and condition