Excluding folder contents from publish

Publishing from Visual studio to IIS server on Windows Server 2012 R2

In .csproj:

<ItemGroup>
   <Content Include="wwwroot\LicenceFiles" CopyToPublishDirectory="Never" />
</ItemGroup>

Expected behavior

For the contents of this directory not to be published

Actual behavior

The directory contents are being added to the server when publishing

Is there another way in core to stop folders from being published? Specifically, this is a folder that I am writing generated PDF files to. Obviously I don’t want to be pushing up any of the files that have been generated in development, so want to retain the folder on the server but just not sync any content.

[vijayrkn]

@ralphking I just tried this on VS 2017 RTW and seems to be working. It is excluding all the files (including sub directories) from wwwroot\images

  <ItemGroup>
    <Content Update="wwwroot\images\**\*.*" CopyToPublishDirectory="Never" />
  </ItemGroup>

If you are publishing from VS, please make sure to check this so that if the files are already present, they will be removed as well.

[livarcocc]

Please use

<ItemGroup>
   <Content Update="wwwroot\LicenceFiles" CopyToPublishDirectory="Never" />
</ItemGroup>

The Web SDK (assuming that’s what you are using) is including these files for you already. So you need to update the files’ metadata to prevent them from being published.