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bluetoft
bluetoft

Reputation: 5443

Include Content in csproj with a wildcard

First the problem I'm trying to solve. I work on a large team and we are constantly having merge conflicts on our web.csproj file. The solution I was trying to implement was including content files using a wild card.

I'm trying to include all files in a directory in my web.csproj file like so.

<Content Include="Areas\Public\Client\**\*.js" />
<Content Include="Areas\Public\Client\**\*.html" />
<Content Include="Areas\Public\Client\**\*css" />

This works great at first glance. I can see all files matching these patterns in visual studio. The problem is, if someone deletes a files from Visual Studio, the IDE then enumerates ALL files in the csproj file and removes my wildcard lines above.

Have any of you solved this problem or have any suggestions?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6772

Answers (1)

Martin Ullrich
Martin Ullrich

Reputation: 100581

This is not possible in VS 2015 without loosing the functionality to add/rename/move/etc. items and keep the wildcards.

The handling of globbing in project files is only impelmented by the new CPS-based project system in VS 2017, which is not (yet) used for "classic" .NET / ASP.NET projects.

There are ways to add the Content items during the build using globbing patterns (using custom targets) but these will not show up in the solution explorer (which is okay for auto-generated files)

Upvotes: 2

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