Question

I am using an ‘Inspector.aspx’ to do some tests in my Debug build. In a Release build (and more importantly when creating an installer), I manually exclude the page (and it’s related C# files) from the project.

Is there a way to automatically exclude files in a selected solution configuration in an ASP.NET project?

C++ projects give control on exclusion/inclusion per file per configuration

Answer 1

One option is to edit your msbuild (*.csproj) file to conditionally exclude certain files based on the Solution Configuration (ie. Debug, Release, etc). For instance:

<Compile      Exclude='inspector.aspx'      Condition=''$(Configuration)' == 'Release'' /> 

Similarly you could define an ItemGroup containing only the files that you want to be included in the Debug build:

<ItemGroup Condition=''$(Configuration)' == 'Debug''>     <Compile Include='inspector.aspx' />     <Compile Include='...other files...' /> </ItemGroup>