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Pankaj Devrani
Pankaj Devrani

Reputation: 511

VSTS Copy and Publish Build Artifacts copying the whole project instead of the necessary files

I am trying to copy my build to a particular drop location. But instead of copying the some important files and directories it is copying all the solution file and directories there like .csproj files and .csfiles and also all the folders present there. I only want to copy dlls(projects dlls and references dlls of the project) and some data Folders and files to drop location so that I can use them to execute my test cases. But it ends up copying the whole solution.

Below are the setting I am using to copy and publish build artifacts.

enter image description here Can Anyone tell me how can it be done?

Note: when I tried to put $(build.sourcesdirectory)\bin in the copy root it gave me an error that "Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Path' because it is null".

I also tried putting only **.dll in my contents but then it copies nothing. The folder created in drop location comes empty.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2844

Answers (1)

Daniel Mann
Daniel Mann

Reputation: 58981

You're telling it to publish **/*test*.dll, from the root of the build agent. That minmatch pattern is saying "find everything in every subfolder that matches test.dll", so the results you're getting aren't surprising.

What you probably want to do is specify the path to the binary output location of your test projects. Without seeing the structure of your code or what MSBuild variables you're providing/overriding, it's impossible to give more guidance. Look at the documentation on pre-defined variables and that should give you some ideas.

In general, you want to set your output folder (via MSBuild arguments) to $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory), so only build outputs go there. Then you can use that as your Copy Root.

Upvotes: 3

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