Exclude files from deployment of ASP.NET Core app

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I have a ASP.NET Core 2.2 white label app with a separate config.json file. I want to be able to exclude this file from being deployed when I call dotnet publish (from VS Code) so that I don't accidentally overwrite my UAT and Prod setups.

With ASP.NET you could add <ExcludeFilesFromDeployment> inside <PropertyGroup>. I've tried this in my .csproj file but it doesn't seem to be working and I can't find any reference to this element in the asp.net core docs. It looks like it might be an outstanding issue according to https://github.com/aspnet/vsweb-publish/issues/73

In previous versions of Core you could use publishExclude in the project.json file but that doesn't exist in ver 2.2

How can I exclude files on a dotnet publish?

Edward · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-21 02:48:48Z

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For Asp.Net Core 2.2, it uses MSBuild to build the project.

For ingoring the specific file, you could edit the *.csproj with adding below

<ItemGroup>
    <Content Update="config.json" CopyToPublishDirectory="Never" />
</ItemGroup>

answered Jun 21, 2019 at 2:48

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