Question

I have a FilesToExclude2.txt file which contains all excludes like this :

*.settings
*#*
*.vbproj*
*.csproj*
*\Errors\*
*\Errors
*\_vti_*\*
*\_vti_*
*\CVS\*

In my tasks file, there is a copy task

  <Target Name="CustomModuleCopy">
    <ItemGroup>
      <ModuleFiles Include="$(SolutionModuleName)\$(ProjectModuleName)\**\*.*" />
      <FileToExclude Include="$(BasePath)\$(SolutionModuleName)\FilesToExclude2.txt" />
    </ItemGroup>
    <ReadLinesFromFile File="@(FileToExclude)">
      <Output TaskParameter="Lines" ItemName="FileContents" />
    </ReadLinesFromFile>

    <Copy SourceFiles="@(ModuleFiles)" DestinationFiles="@(ModuleFiles->'$(DestFolder)\$(ProjectModuleName)\%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')" Condition="'%(ModuleFiles.Identity)' != @(FileContents)" ContinueOnError="false" />

    <!--CallTarget Targets="RemoveCustomModuleConfigFiles" /-->
  </Target>

Without the “condition” attribute on the copy task, everything’s works fine, but I do not know how to implement the condition with wildcard and if it is possible

Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated 🙂 this is freaking me out for few hours…

Answer 1

Would it not be easier to just use the exclude property instead?
as in
Project xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003″>

<ItemGroup>
  <ModuleFiles Include="c:\code\**\*.*"
               Exclude="@(FileContents)" />
</ItemGroup>


<!--<Copy SourceFiles="@(ModuleFiles)" DestinationFolder="Some|Destination" Condition="'%(ModuleFiles.Identity)' != @(FileContents)" ContinueOnError="false" />

CallTarget Targets="RemoveCustomModuleConfigFiles" /-->