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Beingnin
Beingnin

Reputation: 2422

View all excluded files and folders in Visual Studio 2017

When i publish my application, there are some files not getting published. I know it is because those files are excluded from the solution. But the problem is i have to open all folders and sub folders recursively to find out out any file is excluded or not. This is really a pain for me.

Do any how visual studio provides option to list only the excluded files and folders?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1103

Answers (1)

baruchiro
baruchiro

Reputation: 5841

I don't know about a tool for this, but

Depend on your .csproj file format version, you can see a list of all the files that included or not included in your project (but not both).

The .csproj file is the file that describe your project, and located in the root project folder.

With the new format of .csproj (2017)

You can open this file by right-clicking on the project in Visual Studio and selecting Edit the csproj file.

In the file you can see files that marked as Exclude. These files will not be in the project.

With the old .csproj format

Open the .csproj file from the File Explorer, by any text files editor, and see all the files that included in this project.

Now, write a script for parse this files and comparing to the directory structure, and share this script with us as open source.

Upvotes: 1

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