Question

I am looking how to exclude multiple files with a wildcard match in MSBuild settings XML for YUI Compressor for .NET

Currently I have this:

Exclude="$(ProjectDir)../../Scripts/plugins/*.min.js"

But also want to exclude files that match:

*-vsdoc.js

How should this extra wild card pattern be added to the Exclude attribute?

The full XML currently looks like this:

<ItemGroup>
  ...
  <JavaScriptFiles Include="$(ProjectDir)../../Scripts/plugins/*.js" Exclude="$(ProjectDir)../../Scripts/plugins/*.min.js" />
  ...
</ItemGroup>

Answer 1

I found the solution… So I’ll answer this one myself.

To have multiple exclude rules you use ‘;‘ as a delimiter.

<ItemGroup>
  <JavaScriptFiles 
     Include="$(ProjectDir)../../Scripts/plugins/*.js" 
     Exclude="$(ProjectDir)../../Scripts/plugins/*.min.js;
              $(ProjectDir)../../Scripts/plugins/*-vsdoc.js" />
</ItemGroup>