This Itemgroup ItemsFromAnotherTarget
contains:
..\..\References\AnotherFolder\ReferencedAssembly.dll
bin\GeneratedAssembly1.dll
bin\GeneratedAssembly2.dll
somefolder\somefile.txt
somefolder\somefile.exe
bin\anexe.exe
The idea is to generate another item group BinaryFiles
containing
bin\GeneratedAssembly1.dll
bin\GeneratedAssembly2.dll
somefolder\somefile.exe
bin\anexe.exe
So I have the following:
<ItemGroup>
<BinaryFiles Include="@(ItemsFromAnotherTarget)" Condition="'%(Extension)'=='.dll' or '%(Extension)'=='.exe'" Exclude="..\..\References\AnotherFolder\ReferencedAssembly.dll" />
</ItemGroup>
So this generates the required item group. But if we replace the Exclude
with a wild card, it doesn't work.
Exclude="..\..\**\References\**"
Exclude="..\..\References\**\*.dll"
Exclude="..\..\References\**\*"
None of these work.
The issue is the References
folder might have multiple folders and dlls, we need to exclude the whole References
folder. Any idea how to do the filtering using a wild card?
The only way I could get to exclude References
folder is by Regex. It seems sort of hacky and any other suggestion is welcome.
<ItemGroup>
<BinaryFiles Include="@(ItemsFromAnotherTarget)" Condition="(!$([System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex]::IsMatch('%(Identity)', `.\\References\\.`))) and ('%(Extension)'=='.dll' or '%(Extension)'=='.exe')" />
</ItemGroup>