Excluding projects when executing the DotNetCoreCLI@2 task

Question

I am trying to exclude projects when executing the DotNetCoreCLI@2 task with build publish command. I have some test projects (and others) that I don't want to run publish. I have tried file matching according to this and this, but I can't get to work. The documentation of the projects property doesn't state exactly how to write exclusions and I have tried the different variants shown below.

Variant 1

    projects: '**/*.csproj
!**/*.Test.csproj'

Variant 2

    projects: '**/*.csproj
               !**/*.Test.csproj'

Variant 3

    projects: '**/*.csproj !**/*.Test.csproj'

But all the three reports ##[error]Project file(s) matching the specified pattern were not found.

If I remove the exclusion everything works as expected, but it builds publish of all projects.

Anyone have an advice on how to write it?

score 35 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 21 '19 at 14:09

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The following syntax works for me:

projects: |
 **/*.csproj
 !**/*Test.csproj

answered Nov 21 '19 at 14:09

Shayki Abramczyk

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Thanks! it was the `|` which I can't find any documentation on! – Rune G Nov 21 '19 at 14:53
this is common for all the other yaml tasks in azure devops, like pwsh task, or script task, etc – 4c74356b41 Nov 21 '19 at 14:55
I tried a lot but this is the only one that will run. – Ali May 07 '21 at 13:50
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Take into account that if the command is `publish`, the `projects` parameter will be ignored unless you specifically set `publishWebProjects: false` – Mario Lopez Feb 21 '23 at 22:57

Excluding projects when executing the DotNetCoreCLI@2 task

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