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Exclude folder from site build with MSBuild

We use MSBuild to build our solutions through CruiseControl. We have multiple assemblies and a website as part of the solution. VS2008 is building successfully. However, in the build window, we get the following error.

ASPNETCOMPILER (,):

        errorASPCONFIG: The CodeDom provider type "Microsoft.VJSharp.VJSharpCodeProvider, VJSharpCodeProvider, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" could not be located.

The reason for this is that we have a couple of .java files in the scripts folder on the website. We don't want these files to be created. Indeed, we don't need anything in the scripts folder.

Is there a way to exclude the possibility of creating a folder or extension from a website project? Or tell MSBuild to follow the same rules that VS2008 uses to decide what to compile?

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You can use Web Deployment Projects for this . In WDP, you can use the ExcludeFromBuild element to exclude these files. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479568.aspx for more information .



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You can delete entire folders with the Remove Item element attribute ( quick introduction on MSDN ).

For example, if you have elements defined like this:

<ItemGroup>
    ...
    <Compile Include="Tests\Test1.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Tests\SubTests\SubTest1.cs" />
    ...
</ItemGroup>


and you want to exclude all classes from the Tests folder, you can define a task at the end of your project:

    ...
    <PropertyGroup>
        <CoreCompileDependsOn>$(CoreCompileDependsOn);ExcludeTestsFolder</CoreCompileDependsOn>
    </PropertyGroup>
    <Target Name="ExcludeTestsFolder">
        <ItemGroup>
            <Compile Remove="Tests\**\*.cs" />
        </ItemGroup>
    </Target>
</Project>

It is also helpful to define such a task in an external file and import it using the Import element ( explained in detail in another thread ).

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Inside the assembly file, there will be a group of items with matching items. Just edit the file to exclude this element.

For example :

<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
    <ItemGroup>
        <Res Include = "Strings.fr.resources" >
            <Culture>fr</Culture>
        </Res>
        <Res Include = "Dialogs.fr.resources" >
            <Culture>fr</Culture>
        </Res>

        <CodeFiles Include="**\*.cs" Exclude="**\generated\*.cs" />
        <CodeFiles Include="..\..\Resources\Constants.cs" />
    </ItemGroup>
...
</Project>

Edit: Correction for answering comment.

If you only have a sln file, can you create a meta msbuild script that moves the files aside, invokes a task to build your solution, and then returns them?

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