ExcludeFilesFromDeployment and Team Build

Question

I am trying to remove some files from deployment package using ExcludeFilesFromDeployment:

<ExcludeFilesFromDeployment>bin\*.xml</ExcludeFilesFromDeployment>

While this works for local builds, Tem Build still includes files. What am I doying wrong?

Answer 1

Hi Alex,

Would you please post the local build output, as well as Team build logs? People can analyze based on them.

Official guidance for that ExcludeFilesFromDeployment could be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee942158.aspx

Thanks.

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Forrest Guo | MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 2

Forrest,

You need to be more specific which part of 216KB log file you need. Or logs from XXX_Package\Log directory?

Answer 3

Please send me logs to: forrestg@microsoft

Thanks,

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Forrest Guo | MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 4

Alex, I haven't received logs yet.  Log text from the Build Explorer should be good. 

At the same time, I would suggest you check the project output path on build agent. bin\*.xml may not able to locates the necessary files. Based on this, you may replace it with specific files and each files seperated by semicolon (;)  I'm referring to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee942158.aspx#can_i_exclude_specific_files_or_folders_from_deployment

<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
  <ExcludeFilesFromDeployment>
    File1.aspx;File2.aspx
  </ExcludeFilesFromDeployment>
  <ExcludeFoldersFromDeployment>
    Folder1;Folder2
  </ExcludeFoldersFromDeployment>
  <!-- Other settings -->
</PropertyGroup> 

Hope you can resolve the problem soon.

Best Regards,

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Forrest Guo | MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 5

Hi Alex,

Can you provide some more information for us?

Can post the build log file?

What kind of project are you trying to build? Is this an ASP.Net project?

Can you get the MSbuild command line and run it from the  build machine?  What happens there?

Thanks!

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Trevor Hancock (Microsoft)
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Answer 6

Hi Trevor,

I just forwarded the build log to you, please check it.

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Forrest Guo | MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 7

Trevor, Forrest,

Any updates?

Answer 8

We looked at the logs and queried for the errors, but were unable to find anything useful. Thank you for sending the log files, but at this point I think we're beyond what we can do here in the forum. We might need to get all your files and try to set up a repro.

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Trevor Hancock (Microsoft)
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