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Asked: 2026-05-29T06:10:32+00:00

I have included custom code into csproj file which Zip the whole project on

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I have included custom code into csproj file which Zip the whole project on build. I would like to exclude my custom MSBuild code from csproj file while zipping. How to do that?

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    You could call your zipping target directly when running your csproj

    msbuild your.csproj /target:yourZipTarget

    If you need to control zipping/not-zipping for normal builds you could add a condition to your zipping target

    <Target Name="yourZipTarget" Condition="'$(Configuration)'!='DEBUG'">
    <!-- zipping... -->
</Target>

    The example above would run the zipping only when doing a RELEASE build (unless you didn’t introduce another custom Configuration).

    You could declare your own project level property for your zipping Condition and specify (and override a default value) it when calling msbuild

    msbuild your.csproj /property:DoZip=true

    <PropertyGroup>
    <DoZip Condition=" '$(DoZip)' == '' ">false</DoZip>
</PropertyGroup>

<Target Name="yourZipTarget" Condition="'$(DoZip)'!='false'">
    <!-- zipping... -->
</Target>
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