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digita1-anal0g
digita1-anal0g

Reputation: 521

How to include excluded file types in MSBuild

Currently MSBuild is not copying over files w/ the .manifest extension to my build drop folder. I've added commands to explicitly copy over the file, but is there a config flag that I can set so that .manifest files are included?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 6847

Answers (1)

Aaron Jensen
Aaron Jensen

Reputation: 26769

You can pass the AllowedReferenceRelatedFileExtensions property to your build. The property's value should be a semi-colon separated list of file extensions. From Microsoft.Common.targets:

<!--
These are the extensions that reference resolution will consider when looking for files related
to resolved references.  Add new extensions here if you want to add new file types to consider.
-->
<AllowedReferenceRelatedFileExtensions Condition=" '$(AllowedReferenceRelatedFileExtensions)' == '' ">
    .pdb;
    .xml
</AllowedReferenceRelatedFileExtensions>

There is no way to add values to the list. You can only supply the whole list, so make sure you include the defaults, e.g.,

MSBuild.exe MyProject.csproj /t:build "/p:AllowedReferenceRelatedFileExtensions=.pdb;.xml;.manifest"

Upvotes: 16

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